queer masculinities

Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Preface
George Rousseau
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Siting Queer Masculinities
Michael O’Rourke
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1. Searching in the Dark: Towards a Historiography of
Queer Early Modern and Enlightenment (Anglo) Ireland
Chris Mounsey 1
2. Faust’s Transgressions: Male–Male Desire in Early Modern
Germany
Robert D. Tobin 17
3. The Historiography of Male–Male Love in Portugal,
1550–1800
David Higgs 37
4. ‘Are Those People Like Us?’ – Early Modern Homosexuality in
Holland
Theo van der Meer 58
5. Almost Nothing: Male–Male Sex in Denmark, 1550–1800
Wilhelm von Rosen 77
6. A State of Sin: Switzerland and the Early Modern
Imaginary
Helmut Puff 94
7. Can We ‘Queer’ Early Modern Russia?
Dan Healey 106
8. Male Homosexuality in Early Modern Japan: The State of
the Scholarship
Gary P. Leupp 125
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