Love between Men in English Literature

Hamond (17th-century literature, U. of Leeds) explores how emotional and sexual relationships between men have been depicted in English literature from the Renaissance to the modern period. He describes the literary resources used in the face of legal and social constraints, strategies for contemplating male beauty, and the significant silences through which forbidden desires were implied. He mines the work of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Tennyson, Wilde, Forster, Lawrence, Owen, and many lesser known texts. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.