Abstract
Contributors Abbreviations Introduction Alice A. Kuzniar 1. Winckelmann's progeny: homosocial networking in the eighteenth century Simon Richter 2. Wieland and the homoerotics of reading Simon Richter 3. Homosocial necrophilia: the making of man in Jung-Stillings's idyllic patriarchy Stephan K. Schindler 4. The homosexual, the prostitute, and the castrato: closet performances by J. M. R. Lenz Roman Graf 5. In and against nature: Goethe on homosexuality and heterotextuality Robert D. Tobin 6. Male desire in Goethe's Gotz von Berlichingen Susan E. Gustafson 7. Amazon, agitator, allegory: political and gender cross(-dress)ing in Goethe's Egmont W. Daniel Wilson 8. Psy fi explorations of out space: on Werther's special effects Laurence A. Rickels 9. 'Confessions of an Improper Man': Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde Martha B. Helfer 10. The 'third sex' in an age of difference: androgyny and homosexuality in Winckelmann, Friedrich Shclegel, and Kleist Catriona MacLeod 11. Friendship and gender: the aesthetic construction of subjectivity in Kleist Joachim Pfeiffer (translated by Robert D. Tobin) 12. Eternal love or sentimental discourse? Gender dissonance and women's passionate 'friendships' Susanne T. Kord Notes Works cited.
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