Virtuous Vice: Homoeroticism and the Public Sphere

by Eric O. Clarke

Book Overview

In this daring study of queer life and the public sphere, Eric O. Clarke examines the effects of inclusion within public culture. Departing from studies that emphasize homophobia and its mechanisms of exclusion, Virtuous Vice details how mainstream efforts to represent queers affirmatively continually fall short of full democratic enfranchisement. Clarke draws on contemporary writings along with late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822325136
• ISBN13: 9780822325130
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.3"