Introduction
Notes Introduction 1. Walter Rehm, ‘Der Renaissancekult um 1900 und seine Überwindung’, Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 54 (1929): 298, my translation. Throughout this volume, most translations from the German are my own. In the cases of Jacob Burckhardt, Thomas Mann, Friedrich Nietzsche, and several others, however, I have used standard English translations, and provided my own translation of the original only when conciseness rendered such intervention necessary. 2. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality Volume 1: An Introduction, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Vintage Books, 1980). 3. Robert Crawford, ‘Pater’s Renaissance, Andrew Lang, and Anthropological Romanticism’, ELH 53 (1986): 849–79; Richard Dellamora, Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990); Linda C. Dowling, Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994). 4. Dowling, Hellenism, xiii. 5. I do not wish to suggest that any and all writers in Europe during this period who felt same-sex sexual attraction had the same experiences. My point is that those intellectuals who were aware of, or identified with, this new class of person (the homosexual) clearly shared an interest in fin-de-siècle dis- courses of sexuality; and that for some, those discourses were understood in the context of other, less taboo discourses (Oxford Hellenism, the Renaissance revival, socialism, anarchy, individualism, and so on). 6. Anna McCarthy, ‘Crab People From the Center of the Earth’, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 11:1 (2005): 98; Gustavus T. Stadler, ‘Queer Guy for the Straight “I” ’, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 11:1 (2005): 109.
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