Homosexuals in History: A Study of Ambivalence in Society, Literature and the Arts

By: A. L. Rowse

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Synopsis: Richard Coeur-de-Lion, Johann Joachim, Fritz Krupp, Erasmus, Winckelmann, Leonardo da Vinci, Lord Byron, Ernst Röhm, Michelangelo, Tchaikovsky, E. M. Forster, Christopher Marlowe, Diaghilev, Somerset Maugham, Henri III, Oscar Wilde, Noel Coward, Francis Bacon, Rimbaud and Verlaine, T. E. Lawrence, James I, Walt Whitman, Louis XIII, Marcel Proust, Herman Melville, Horace Walpole, André Gide, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick the Great, Jean Cocteau, Henry James, Jean Genet and numerous others walked every path of life and left their marks, sometimes for good, sometimes for evil, in every field of endeavor. Their single similarity was the sexual preference they shared--and the stigma society placed upon it. Now eminent English historian A. L. Rowse examines homosexual men of genius throughout history and the _ courageous, often desperate responses they made to society's hypocrisy.

Book Quality:: Excellent
Book Size:: 360 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780880290111
Publisher:: Dorset Press
Date of Addition:: 04/22/19
Copyrighted By:: A. L. Rowse
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
Submitted By:: Terry Gorman
Proofread By:: Terry Gorman
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.

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