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373 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.

Le metamorfosi di Zambinella : l'immaginario androgino fra Ottocento e Novecento / Franca Franchi.

<p>The place of the Middle East in European heterosexual fantasy is well documented in the works of Edward Said and others, yet few have considered the male Anglo-European (and, later, American) writers, artists, travelers, and thinkers compelled to represent what, to their eyes, seemed to be an abundance of erotic relations between men in the Islamicate world. Whether feared or desired, the mere possibility of sexual contact with or between men in the Middle East has covertly underwritten much of the appeal and practice of the enterprise of Orientalism, frequently repeating yet just.</p>

xxxiv, 486 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of colored plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

The homoerotics of Orientalism / Joseph Allen Boone.

The sexuality of history : modernity and the sapphic, 1565-1830 / Susan S. Lanser.

Freud and forbidden knowledge / edited by Peter L. Rudnytsky and Ellen Handler Spitz.

xiv, 350 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Sex and sensibility : ideal and erotic love from Milton to Mozart / Jean H. Hagstrum.

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Quaderni / Fondazione Carlo Marchi

Sapere e narrare

Modelli e stili di conoscenza : nella scienza e nell'arte del Novecento / a cura di Mimma Bresciani Califano.

xxix, 344 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm

The body in parts : fantasies of corporeality in early modern Europe / edited by David Hillman and Carla Mazzio.

University of Pittsburgh publications on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; v, 4

193 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Le metamorfosi di Zambinella : l'immaginario androgino fra Ottocento e Novecento / Franca Franchi.

The homoerotics of Orientalism / Joseph Allen Boone.

The sexuality of history : modernity and the sapphic, 1565-1830 / Susan S. Lanser.

Freud and forbidden knowledge / edited by Peter L. Rudnytsky and Ellen Handler Spitz.

Sex and sensibility : ideal and erotic love from Milton to Mozart / Jean H. Hagstrum.

Modelli e stili di conoscenza : nella scienza e nell'arte del Novecento / a cura di Mimma Bresciani Califano.

The body in parts : fantasies of corporeality in early modern Europe / edited by David Hillman and Carla Mazzio.

Human sexuality in the Middle Ages and Renaissance / edited by Douglas Radcliff-Umstead.

Krankheit schreiben : Aufzeichnungsverfahren in Medizin und Literatur / herausgegeben von Yvonne Wübben und Carsten Zelle.

The Dance of death and the macabre spirit in European literature / by Leonard P. Kurtz.

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Le metamorfosi di Zambinella : l'immaginario androgino fra Ottocento e Novecento / Franca Franchi.

The homoerotics of Orientalism / Joseph Allen Boone.

The sexuality of history : modernity and the sapphic, 1565-1830 / Susan S. Lanser.

Freud and forbidden knowledge / edited by Peter L. Rudnytsky and Ellen Handler Spitz.

Sex and sensibility : ideal and erotic love from Milton to Mozart / Jean H. Hagstrum.

Modelli e stili di conoscenza : nella scienza e nell'arte del Novecento / a cura di Mimma Bresciani Califano.

The body in parts : fantasies of corporeality in early modern Europe / edited by David Hillman and Carla Mazzio.

Human sexuality in the Middle Ages and Renaissance / edited by Douglas Radcliff-Umstead.

Krankheit schreiben : Aufzeichnungsverfahren in Medizin und Literatur / herausgegeben von Yvonne Wübben und Carsten Zelle.

The Dance of death and the macabre spirit in European literature / by Leonard P. Kurtz.

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