Homosexuality in Italian literature, society, and culture, 1789-1919

Benadusi, Lorenzo, 1973- (editor.). Bernardini, Paolo, 1963- (editor.). Bianco, Elisa, 1979- (editor.). Guazzo, Paola, 1964- (editor.).

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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ISBN: 9781443872881
ISBN: 1443872881
ISBN: 9781443892247
ISBN: 1443892246
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 270 pages)
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Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

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General Note:	CatMonthString:july.19 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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 omosessualit�a di Pinocchio / Antonio Castronuovo.
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