Homosexuality and Civilization.(Book review)

From: CLIO | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Radel, Nicholas | Copyright information

Homosexuality & Civilization. By Louis Crompton. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. xv + 623 pages.

Reflecting on the title of Louis Crompton's magisterial Homosexuality & Civilization, one might see that this is an artful and well-planned work of scholarship, for its multiple ironies sum up many of the themes and polemical issues pertinent to the book. On a fundamental level, the ampersand of the title points to the bitter irony that those w...

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