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Title Homosexuality in Italian literature, society, and culture, 1789-1919 / edited by Lorenzo Benadusi, Paolo L. Bernardini, Elisa Bianco and Paola Guazzo.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 270 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents In the shadow of J.J. Winckelmann: homosexuality in Italy during the long nineteenth century / Lorenzo Benadusi, Paolo Bernardini, Paola Guazzo -- Role playing: gender ambiguity, criminology and popular culture in Italy between the nineteenth and twentieth century / Laura Schettini -- Pathologies and eroticism: Paolo Mantegazza's ambiguous reflections on female same-sex sexuality / Charlotte Ross -- "Mi morse le labbra, bevette il mio respiro": vampirism and literary lesbianism in liberal Italy / Maya De Leo -- What fairies have to tell our stories / Giovanni Dall'Orto -- Male homosexuality in nineteenth century Italy: a juridical view / Barbara Pozzo -- "Amori et dolori sacrum": canons, differences and figures of gender identity in the cultural panorama of travellers in Capri between the nineteenth and twentieth century / Eugenio Zito -- Taormina and the strange case of Baron von Gloeden / Mario Bolognari -- Violet Edmonstone and Vita Sackville-West: Italy's backstage role in psychologically sadistic lesbian relationship in the early twentieth century / Ilaria E.M. Borjigid Bohm -- The disappearance of the "third sex"?: fear of effeminacy and the rediscovery of virile homosexuality during the Great War / Lorenzo Benadusi -- L'inconsistente omosessualità di Pinocchio / Antonio Castronuovo.
Summary Homosexuality, bisexuality, transvestitism, and trans-genders represented new ideas, customs, and mentalities which shattered nineteenth-century Italy. At this time, Italy was a state in the making, with a growing population, a fading aristocracy, and new urban classes entering the scene. While still an extremely Catholic country, atheism and secularization slowly undermined the old, traditional morality, with literature and poetry endorsing innovative fashions coming from abroad. Laxity mixed with perversion, while new forms of sexuality mirrored the immense changes taking place in a society.
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Subject Gay people -- Italy -- History -- 19th century.
Gays.
Italy.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Italian literature -- History and criticism.
Italian literature.
Homosexuality in literature.
Homosexuality in literature.
Gay people in popular culture -- Italy -- History -- 19th century.
Gender identity -- Italy -- History -- 19th century.
Gender identity.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Subject Homosexuals.
Gender identity.
Added Author Benadusi, Lorenzo, 1973- editor.
Bernardini, Paolo, 1963- editor.
Bianco, Elisa, 1979- editor.
Guazzo, Paola, 1964- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Homosexuality in Italian literature, society, and culture, 1789-1919. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 9781443872881 (OCoLC)973508359
ISBN 9781443892247 (electronic book)
1443892246 (electronic book)
9781443872881
1443872881