TY - BOOK AU - Tobin,Robert TI - Warm Brothers: Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe T2 - New Cultural Studies SN - 9780812235449 U1 - 830.9/353 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Philadelphia : PB - University of Pennsylvania Press, KW - German literature KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century KW - Homosexuality and literature KW - Homosexuality in literature KW - Homosexuality KW - Germany KW - History KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German KW - bisacsh KW - Cultural Studies KW - Gay Studies KW - Gender Studies KW - Lesbian Studies KW - Literature KW - Queer Studies N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface: Panic in Weimar --; List of Abbreviations --; 1. Queering the Eighteenth Century --; 2. Warm Signifiers: Eighteenth-Century Codes of Male-Male Desire --; 3. Jean Paul's Oriental Homosexualities --; 4. Literary Cures in Wieland and Moritz --; 5. Pederasty and Pharmaka in Goethe's Works --; 6. Performing Gender in Wilhelm Meister: Goethe on Italian Transvestites --; 7. Male Members: Ganymede, Prometheus, Faust --; 8. Thomas Mann's Queer Schiller --; 9. Lichtenberg's Queer Fragments: Sexuality and the Aphorism --; Conclusion. Made in Germany: Modern Sexuality --; Bibliography --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - In eighteenth-century Germany, the aesthetician Friedrich Wilhelm Basileus Ramdohr could write of the phenomenon of men who evoke sexual desire in other men; Johann Joachim Winckelmann could place admiration of male beauty at the center of his art criticism; and admirers and detractors alike of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, felt constrained to comment upon the ruler's obvious preference for men over women. In German cities of the period, men identified as "warm brothers" wore broad pigtails powdered in the back, and developed a particular discourse of friendship, classicism, Orientalism, and fashion.There is much evidence, Robert D. Tobin contends, that something was happening in the semantic field around male-male desire in late eighteenth-century Germany, and that certain signs were coalescing around "a queer proto-identity." Today, we might consider a canonical author of the period such as Jean Paul a homosexual; we would probably not so identify Goethe or Schiller. But for Tobin, queer subtexts are found in the writings of all three and many others.Warm Brothers analyzes classical German writers through the lens of queer theory. Beginning with sodomitical subcultures in eighteenth-century Germany, it examines the traces of an emergent homosexuality and shows the importance of the eighteenth century for the nineteenth-century sexologists who were to provide the framework for modern conceptualizations of sexuality. One of the first books to document male-male desire in eighteenth-century German literature and culture, Warm Brothers offers a much-needed reappraisal of the classical canon and the history of sexuality UR - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812203608 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812203608 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812203608/original ER -