George E. Haggerty, Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, is author of Gothic Fiction/Gothic Form and a variety of essays on the literature of the eighteenth century. He is also co-editor of The Profession of Desire and editor of Gay Histories and Cultures.
Entries by George E. Haggerty
literature >> Beckford, William
Extremely wealthy and connected to the aristocracy, British author and connoisseur William Beckford was ostracized by English society for the last sixty years of his life because of his homosexuality.
literature >> Gothicism
The Gothic has always offered writers and readers the chance to experience the excitement of transgressive sexuality of various kinds, including male and female homosexuality.
literature >> Gray, Thomas
Thomas Gray, the best-loved English poet of the eighteenth century, wrote several poems that express the love he felt for other men.
literature >> Lewis, Matthew G.
Matthew Lewis's scandalous masterpiece, The Monk, is one of the great works in the gay and lesbian literary tradition.
literature >> Scott, Sarah
The eighteenth-century novelist Sarah Scott challenges the sex-gender system of her society and claims narrative authority for women loving women.
literature >> Walpole, Horace
Throughout his life, Horace Walpole was devoted to other men, and his exploration of dysfunctional families in The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother probably stems from his own experience with a destructive father.
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