Beethoven's Kiss: Pianism, Perversion, and the Mastery of Desire

In Beethoven's Kiss, Kevin Kopelson takes you on a journey through a unique literary style which is both scholarly and meditative. It interweaves the issues of gender, sexuality and erotic romanticism and presents them against the backdrop of romantic pianism. Exploring quasi-sexual myths of the nineteenth century, Beethoven's Kiss takes a long look at the origin and consequences of those myths.

Author: Kevin Kopelson
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 05/01/1996
Pages: 212
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.47h x 5.06w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780804725989

About the Author
Kevin Kopelson is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa and the author of Love's Litany: The Writing of Modern Homoerotics (Stanford, l994). He trained as a classical pianist at the Juilliard school of music.