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"Appears well placed to make an influential intervention in cultural theory on both sides of the Atlantic....A carefully argued, thought-provoking book that makes fascinating connections among different kinds of discourse while carrying an affective punch far beyond the academic routine."--Modern Language Quarterly
"Dollimore's amazing command of Western literary culture is evident in the historical and disciplinary sweep of his book."--Signs
"This is a thoughtful and challenging book, not only for its reappraisals of hoary academic controversies like the constructionist-essentialist standoff, but because of the many intriguing analytical formulations it propounds."--Choice
"A massive and authoritative contribution to the debate on cultural politics....Every student should own and use a copy. More to the point, so should anyone who presumes to teach."--Times Higher Education Supplement
"A substantial and ambitious book....It is a book that needed to be written, requiring the courage to tackle several conventionally distinct fields of knowledge and interpretation."--Times Literary Supplement
Kurzbeschreibung
This wide-ranging study of sexual dissidence returns to the early modern period in order to focus, question, and develop issues of postmodernity, in the process brilliantly linking writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Gide, Wilde, and Genet, and cultural critics as different as Augustine, Freud, Fanon, Foucault, and Monique Wittig. The book shows how the literature, histories, and sub-cultures of sexual and gender dissidence prove remarkably illuminating for current debates on literary theory, psychoanalysis, and cultural materialism. Central topics include homophobia, the gay sensibility, transvestite literature in the culture and theatre of Renaissance England, homosexuality, and race.
