The Seduction of the Mediterranean: Writing, Art and Homosexual Fantasy

By Robert Aldrich

Book Overview

Through an explanation of forty figures in European culture, The Seduction of the Mediterranean> argues that the Mediterranean, classical and contemporary, was the central theme in homoerotic writing and art from the 1750s to the 1950s. Episodes of exile, murder, drug-taking, wild homosexual orgies and court cases are woven into an original study of a significant theme in European culture. The myth of a homoerotic Mediterranean made a major contribution to general attitudes towards Antiquity, the Renaissance and modern Italy and Greece.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415093120
• ISBN13: 9780415093125
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary