Richard Kaye is Assistant Professor of English at Hunter College. He is completing a book-length study of St. Sebastian in nineteenth-century art and literature.
Entries by Richard Kaye
literature >> Aestheticism
A theory of art and an approach to living that influenced many European and American gay male and lesbian writers at the turn of the twentieth century, aestheticism stressed the independence of art from all moral and social conditions and judgments.
literature >> Bloomsbury
The Bloomsbury circle's open acceptance of erotic license and hostility toward social convention are important elements in the history of homosexuality among the English upper classes in the first half of the twentieth century.
literature >> Lawrence, D. H.
For his time, D. H. Lawrence was a maverick in his open and adventurous discussion of all sexual issues and especially homosexuality, both male and female.
literature >> St. Sebastian
Although he has had various embodiments throughout history, Sebastian has long been known as the homosexual's saint.
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