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<p>Selected by <i>Choice</i> magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2001</p> <p>In eighteenth-century Germany, the aesthetician Friedrich Wilhelm Basileus Ramdohr could write of the phenomenon of men who evoke sexual desire in other men; Johann Joachim Winckelmann could place admiration of male beauty at the center of his art criticism; and admirers and detractors alike of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, felt constrained to comment upon the ruler's obvious preference for men over women. In German cities of the period, men identified as "warm brothers" wore broad pigtails powdered in the back, and developed a particular discourse of friendship, classicism, Orientalism, and fashion.</p> <p>There is much evidence, Robert D. Tobin contends, that something was happening in the semantic field around male-male desire in late eighteenth-century Germany, and that certain signs were coalescing around "a queer proto-identity." Today, we might consider a canonical author of the period such as Jean Paul a homosexual; we would probably not so identify Goethe or Schiller. But for Tobin, queer subtexts are found in the writings of all three and many others.</p> <p><i>Warm Brothers</i>

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Author

Deutsch, ..;Tobin, Robert Deam

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812203608

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, History