October 2010
4 posts
Yet another chapter framework
Introduction: how shamefully the historiography ignores S.
1. Context leading up to Greek Ethics and Modern Ethics—how it’s possible for S. to write what he does
2. G.E. and M.E. themselves—what’s new, exciting about them
3. Impact: who read them, what they learned
One of the things I have to do with Symonds is to prove that a text with an 1883 private print run of 10 copies (i.e. Greek Ethics) still had a profound impact on the making of gay history even though “nobody” read it. I need to find out who those copies went to and how they were impacted by them.
Can I just say
My inbox is filled right now with emails from Tony Grafton with citation info for books about sodomy (in classical Greece, in the early modern period, in the Victorian era, etc.) I’m a lucky, lucky girl.
Digression
Major autumn research project might wind up being about this, if I can get it to relate to women’s suffrage in America. I never manage to get too far away from the queer stuff, do I?