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This analysis of the relation of erotic philosophy to homosexuality in the modern period focuses on homoerotic (mis)appropriations and subversions of homoerotic conceptions of romantic love in texts by authors including Oscar Wilde, Andre Gide, Ronald Firbank, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein.

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"At once invitingly stylish and excitingly lucid, Love's Litany disentangles a rich, distinct tradition of philosophizing homoerotic love that looks back to Romanticism and urges forward toward modernism—toward the passionate merging, crystallization, camaraderie, experimentation, and mortal loss that mark our own fin de siècle." -- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick * Duke University *
"Everywhere tenderly epigrammatic, Kevin Kopelson's voice—moving with a litigator's clean, panoptic brio—demonstrates that critique can be a form of courtship, even a form of love." -- Wayne Koestenbaum * Yale University *

Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. Wilde's love deaths; 2. Pederastic trappings: Gide and Firbank; 3. Another other: Woolf and Stein; 4. Friends and lovers: Yourcenar and Renault; 5. Barthes's love-tricks; Notes; Index.

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 01/08/1994
      ISBN13: 9780804723459, 978-0804723459
      ISBN10: 0804723451
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This analysis of the relation of erotic philosophy to homosexuality in the modern period focuses on homoerotic (mis)appropriations and subversions of homoerotic conceptions of romantic love in texts by authors including Oscar Wilde, Andre Gide, Ronald Firbank, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein.

      Trade Review
      "At once invitingly stylish and excitingly lucid, Love's Litany disentangles a rich, distinct tradition of philosophizing homoerotic love that looks back to Romanticism and urges forward toward modernism—toward the passionate merging, crystallization, camaraderie, experimentation, and mortal loss that mark our own fin de siècle." -- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick * Duke University *
      "Everywhere tenderly epigrammatic, Kevin Kopelson's voice—moving with a litigator's clean, panoptic brio—demonstrates that critique can be a form of courtship, even a form of love." -- Wayne Koestenbaum * Yale University *

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; 1. Wilde's love deaths; 2. Pederastic trappings: Gide and Firbank; 3. Another other: Woolf and Stein; 4. Friends and lovers: Yourcenar and Renault; 5. Barthes's love-tricks; Notes; Index.

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