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Paperback The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire, 1660-1750 Book

ISBN: 0231108958

ISBN13: 9780231108959

The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire, 1660-1750

Charting the emergence of the sodomite as a social type, this text argues that the sodomite symbolized a variety of economic and political conflicts and transgressions. The central question the text... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Worthwhile addition to Eighteeenth-Century Studies

McFarlane's book is quite good on the topic it covers. It avoids essentializing or questing after gay identity in a politically-motivated way (although this too has led to worthwhile criticism), and remains skeptical and interested in the ways that the figure of the sodomite is constructed as a political and moral trope that captures many other "transgressions" beyond that it claims to name. Particularly relevant and enlightening are his readings of Smollet and Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.
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