TY - BOOK AU - Wilper, James P. AB - In Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German, James P. Wilper examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analyzing four novels by German, British, and American writers. Wilper studies how the texts are influenced by and respond and react to four schools of thought regarding male homosexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first is legal codes criminalizing sex acts between men and the religious doctrine that informs them. The second is the ancient Greek erotic philosophy, in which a revival of interest took place in the late nineteenth century. The third is sexual science (or “sexology”), which offered various medical and psychological explanations for same-sex desire and was employed variously to defend, as well as to attempt to cure, this "perversion." ID - OAPEN ID: 650023 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 949272962 ID - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30077 KW - Literature KW - Effeminacy KW - Greek love KW - Homosexuality KW - Oscar Wilde KW - Sexology L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30077/1/650023.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30077/1/650023.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30077/1/650023.pdf LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26907 PB - Purdue University Press PP - West Lafayette PY - 2016-02-01 SN - 9781557537508 TI - Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and Germannull ER -