Outing Goethe & His Age by Kuzniar, Alice A. (ed) - 1996

Stanford University Press, 1996-07-01. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good Dust Jacket. Very good+ hardcover with very good dust jacket. DJ may have light sunning - hard to determine if it's sunning or if that's the design of the jacket. Binding is tight and sturdy, boards and text also very good+.

Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is in mylar cover. x/297 pages."When Goethe christened the 1700's "the Century of Winckelmann" and Kant dubbed it "the Century of Frederick the Great," they invoked two notorious figures in gay history. This collection of twelve essays reclaims "the Age of Goethe"―To call upon a literary designation of roughly the same period - as a time when same-sex erotic attraction suffused artistic production from Winckelmann's art treatises and Goethe's plays to Friedrich Schlegel's self-reflexive novel Lucinde and Kleist's letters.This volume employs historical, biographical, and textual evidence to paint a cohesive picture of the incontrovertibly sexual nature of male-male and female-female relationships in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Germany. The literature of this era bequeathed to us the cultural inventions of Romantic love, classical femininity,… Read More

Stanford University Press. New in New dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0804726140 . 8.7 X 5.4 X 1.0 inches; 312 pages .

Stanford University Press, 1996-07-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Stanford Univ Pr, 1996. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 297 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches.