Warm Brothers: Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe

Robert Tobin

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2000

Warm Brothers

Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe

Robert Tobin

In the series New Cultural Studies

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812203608

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About this book

"Well argued, clearly written, with interesting emphases and ambitious breadth, this excellent book maintains a uniformly high level of scholarship."—Choice

Author / Editor information

Robert Tobin is Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Whitman College.

Reviews

"Well argued, clearly written, with interesting emphases and ambitious breadth, this excellent book maintains a uniformly high level of scholarship. . . . Providing new and necessary perspectives for readers and critics of every stripe, . . . this accessible, laudable study is highly recommended."—Choice

"Lively and accessible. . . . Tobin operates with a broad, occasionally breathtaking, erudition and brings multiple sources to bear on each of his arguments."—European Romantic Review

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2001

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface: Panic in Weimar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
List of Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
1. Queering the Eighteenth Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Warm Signifiers: Eighteenth-Century Codes of Male-Male Desire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
3. Jean Paul's Oriental Homosexualities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
4. Literary Cures in Wieland and Moritz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
5. Pederasty and Pharmaka in Goethe's Works Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
6. Performing Gender in Wilhelm Meister: Goethe on Italian Transvestites Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
7. Male Members: Ganymede, Prometheus, Faust Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
8. Thomas Mann's Queer Schiller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
9. Lichtenberg's Queer Fragments: Sexuality and the Aphorism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
Conclusion. Made in Germany: Modern Sexuality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: Literature; Gay Studies; Lesbian Studies; Queer Studies; Cultural Studies; Gender Studies

eBook

Published: June 9, 2015
ISBN: 9780812203608