Victorian Same-Sex Dialogue, And Still Suspicious of Whitman
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
A few points we mentioned today may be reiterated. Back to my reference about Abraham Lincoln. During the Victorian Era, the actions and syntax of male companionship had much higher thresholds in order to cross into homosexual territory. This ideology even draws comparisons with the homoerotic relationship between Chillingworth and Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter. […]
Victorian Same-Sex Dialogue, And Still Suspicious of Whitman
Tags: Female Friendship, Haywood, Homoeroticism, Homosexuality, Peiss, Same-sex Relationships, Smith-Rosenberg, Vernacular, Victorian Era, Walt Whitman
Posted in March 13, Peter Panousopoulos | 1 Comment »
Private, Public, and Some
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
After reading all the historical documents and essays, what struck me the most was that I never learned about or heard of the Postal Act/Comstock Act or Anthony Comstock in any American history class let alone anything about the Free Lovers and other prominent figures and ideologies in this particular historical moment. A quick skim […]
Private, Public, and Some
Tags: Censorship, Discourse, Law, Postal Act, Private, Public, Sexuality, Victorian Era
Posted in March 13, Vita Xie | 2 Comments »
Overwhelming Deployment
Sunday, March 4th, 2012
At the end of our discussion last week, Professor Quinby prompted us to think about how Foucault’s notion of the deployment of sexuality shows up in our readings. I want to focus primarily on this weeks essays as I found them really interesting and a good springboard for discussion about the Scarlet Letter in class. […]
Overwhelming Deployment
Tags: Cott, Foucault, Juridico-Discursive, Religion, Sexuality, The Deployment of Sexuality, The Scarlet Letter, Victorian Era
Posted in March 6, Uncategorized, Whitney Porter | No Comments »
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
Monday, February 6th, 2012
In the time periods explored by Foucault in Parts 1-3 of The History of Sexuality, what was constituted as socially acceptable sexual discourse was anything that would hit close to the bullseye, but not directly on it. It had become an art of verbal communication, and maybe even a gender competition about who could tickle the […]
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
Tags: Adolescence, Ambiguity, Discourse, Foucault, Naivety, Respect, Subliminal, The History of Sexuality, Victorian Era
Posted in February 7, Peter Panousopoulos | 1 Comment »