1st Edition
Masculinity and Queer Desire in Spanish Enlightenment Literature
By Mehl Allan Penrose
Copyright 2014
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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In Masculinity and Queer Desire in Spanish Enlightenment Literature, Mehl Allan Penrose examines three distinct male figures, each of which was represented as the Other in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Spanish literature. The most common configuration of non-normative men was the petimetre, an effeminate, Francophile male who figured a failed masculinity, a dubious sexuality, and an... Read more
Introduction; Part I The Reinvention of Masculinity and the Problematic Petimetre; Chapter 1 The Invocations of Hermaphrodism in the Periodicals El Censor, El Duende Especulativo, and El Pensador; Chapter 2 Proto-Camp; Part II The Invention of Sexuality and the Homoerotic Male; Chapter 3 “I Don’t Burn Candles of That Sort”; Chapter 4 Male Friendship, Love, and Longing in the Poetry of Manuel María del Mármol; Chapter 101 Conclusion;
Biography
Mehl Allan Penrose is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Maryland, USA. He has published several articles concerning Spanish and Mexican cultural discourse in peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include the problematic of gender and sexuality in modern Spanish cultural discourse, specifically non-normative representations of men, and also include queer studies, reception theory, camp theory, and the intersections of literature, science, law, and medicine.
’In his excellent study of queer issues in eighteenth-century Spanish literature, Mehl Allan Penrose applies a wide array of thinking about the nature of erotic acts and the sociohistorical considerations relative to them. Focusing on male writers, Penrose convincingly analyzes representations of the homoerotic in the writing of major figures in Spanish literature.’ David William Foster, Arizona State University, USA
