Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture

by Frederick S. Roden

Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture examines the role of Christian history in nineteenth-century definitions of homosexual identity. Roden charts the emergence of the modern homosexual in relation to religious, not exclusively sociological discourses. Positing Catholicism as complementary to classical Greece, he challenges the separatism of sexuality and religion in critical practice. Moving from Newman and Rossetti, to Hopkins, Wilde,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333986431
• ISBN13: 9780333986431
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.5"