Love, Sex, Intimacy and Friendship Between Men, 1550-1800

ALAN BRAY Historian and Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London, UKMARIO DI GANGI Associate Professor of English at Lehman College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USAJODY GREENE Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USAGEORGE E. HAGGERTY is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, USADAVID M. HALPERIN W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality, University of Michigan, USANICHOLAS RADEL Professor of English, Furman University, South Carolina, USAGEORGE ROUSSEAU Co-Director of the Centre for the History of Childhood, Faculty of History, Oxford University, UKALAN STEWART Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New Yor, USARANDOLPH TRUMBACH Professor of History, Baruch College and the Graduate School, City University of New York, USA

• Introduction; K.O'Donnel , M.O'Rourke & D.M.Halperin Homoplatonic, Homodepressed, Homomorbid:' Some Further genealogies of Same-Sex Attraction in Western Civilization; G.Rousseau Homosexuals in History: A.L. Rowse and the Queer Archive; A.Stewart Male Love and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century; G.E.Haggerty A Traditional Rite for Blessing Friendship; A.Bray The Heterosexual Male in Eighteenth Century London and his Queer Interactions; R.Trumbach How Queer was the Renaissance? M.Di Gangi Can the Sodomite Speak? Sodomy, Satire, Desire, and the Castlehaven Case; N.F.Radel (Per)versions of Sappho; J.Greene

'This is a well-conceived and provocative collection that will be important not only to historians of sexuality but to social and cultural historians generally. The essays are focused, original and often surprising, and point toward significant new areas of study. The book is a moving and appropriate tribute to the work of the late Alan Bray.' - Professor Stephen Orgel, Department of English, Stanford University'These substantial and accomplished essays focus on a precise but densely resonant period, unravelling the links between sexuality, friendship, manhood and subjectivity. A confident, stimulating and entirely readable collection by some of the top experts in the field, with implications for the whole idea of sexuality' - Professor Alan Sinfield, Sussex University'An impressive and wide-ranging collection, whose contributors, including David Halperin, Alan Stewart, and Mario Di Gangi, are leaders in the field of early modern queer studies.' - Huntington Library Quarterly'A very welcome contribution to the histories of sexuality, masculinity, and emotion. This collection is an important development in the history of masculinity. It is also an example of how this field is leading the way in gender history.' - Men and Masculinities