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Article: Men in Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century.(Review)
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- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- February 1, 2000
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Men in Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century, by George E. Haggerty. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 214 + xii pages. Cloth $49.50; paper $16.50.
Haggerty, a professor of English at Columbia University, specializes in eighteenth century literature as well as gay and gender studies. He is editor of the Encyclopedia of Gay History and Cultures (1999), and so he knows well the literature of the period about which he is writing. Some definitions are in order. The first term is love, a term he adopted to avoid what he feels are misleading terms such sodomy, libertinism, or romantic friendships. To Haggerty, love not only implies the ...