18th century english literature, History and criticism , Homosexuality and literature-Great Britain-History-18th century, Gays in literature, Homosexuality-History-18th century, Gays-Social life and customs-18th century 

(SBN) 9780838756676 (alk. paper)||(BIB) Includes bibliographical references and index||(CON) Queer people : an introduction / Caroline Gonda and Chris Mounsey -- Homosexual context and identity : reflections on the reception of Handel as Orpheus / Ellen T. Harris -- Queerness, class, and sexuality / Sally O'Driscoll -- Sex and shopping with Frances Burney / Conrad Brunstrˆm -- People, place and performance : theoretically revisiting Mother Clap's molly house / Tanya Cassidy -- How (not) to queer Boswell / Thomas A. King -- Cruising Crusoe : diving into the wreck of sexuality / Joseph Campana -- London's homosexuals in the eighteenth century : rhetoric versus practice / Netta Goldsmith -- Dark deeds at night / Ruth Herman -- Queer labor : genius and class in eighteenth-century pastoral / Bridget Keegan -- Love between men in Jennens' and Handel's Saul / Ruth Smith -- Conversion panic, circumcision and sexual anxiety : Penelope Aubin's queer writing / Chris Mounsey -- Queer doings in Oxford : the Christian's new warning piece (1753) / Caroline Gonda -- Having it both ways? : the eighteenth-century menage-‡-trois / Chris Roulston. 

305 p. ; 24 cm.