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Article: Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy and the Supernatural in English and German Romanticism.(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2004
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Ellen Brinks, Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy and the Supernatural in English and German Romanticism
(Bucknell Univ. Pr. 2003) 219 pp. $45.00
In Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy and the Supernatural in English and German Romanticism, Ellen Brinks pursues the implications in Romanticism for a decentered queer masculinity. Following historians such as Randolph Trumbach and Michel Foucault, Gothic Masculinity considers the shift in male-male relations from the eighteenth century to the turn of the nineteenth century in England and the Continent (in this study, Germany in particular). The eighteenth century, Brinks maintains, "often accommodated same-sex desire ...