Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture

Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture examines the role of Christian history in nineteenth-century definitions of homosexual identity. Roden charts the emergence of the modern homosexual in relation to religious, not exclusively sociological discourses. Positing Catholicism as complementary to classical Greece, he challenges the separatism of sexuality and religion in critical practice. Moving from Newman and Rossetti, to Hopkins, Wilde, and Michael Field amongst others, Same-Sex Desire claims a new literary history, bringing together gay studies and theology in Victorian literature.

Author: F. Roden
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/23/2002
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.54h x 6.30w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780333986431

About the Author
FREDERICK S. RODEN is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, USA. He has published articles on Victorian literature and culture, religion and homosexuality, gender theory, and medievalism.