Warm Brothers: Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe 9780812203608

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface: Panic in Weimar
List of Abbreviations
1. Queering the Eighteenth Century
2. Warm Signifiers: Eighteenth-Century Codes of Male-Male Desire
3· Jean Paul's Oriental Homosexualities
4. Literary Cures in Wieland and Moritz
s. Pederasty and Pharmaka in Goethe's Works
6. Performing Gender in Wilhelm Meister: Goethe on Italian Transvestites
7· Male Members: Ganymede, Prometheus, Faust
8. Thomas Mann's Queer Schiller
9· Lichtenberg's Queer Fragments: Sexuality and the Aphorism
Conclusion. Made in Germany: Modern Sexuality
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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Alternative Education

NEW CULTURAL STUDIES

Series Editors Joan DeJean Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Peter Stallybrass Gary A. Tomlinson

A complete list of books in the series is available from the publisher.

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Publication of this volume was assisted by a grant from Whitman College.

Copyright © 2000 University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved

10987654321 Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tobin, Robert Deam. Warm brothers : queer theory and the age of Goethe/ Robert D. Tobin. p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN o-8122-3544-4 (alk. paper) 1. German literature-18th century-History and criticism. 2. German literature-19th century- History and criticism. 3. Homosexuality in literature. 4· Homosexuality and literature. 5· HomosexualityGerman- History. I. Title. PT321 .T58 2ooo 99-058081

CONTENTS Preface: Panic in Weimar

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List of Abbreviations 1.

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Queering the Eighteenth Century

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s. Pederasty and Pharmaka in Goethe's Works I

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6. Performing Gender in Wilhelm Meister: Goethe on Italian Transvestites I 117 7· Male Members: Ganymede, Prometheus, Faust 8. Thomas Mann's Queer Schiller

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9· Lichtenberg's Queer Fragments: Sexuality and the Aphorism I 174 Conclusion. Made in Germany: Modern Sexuality Bibliography

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