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Le feu caché: Homosocial Bonds Between Women in a Renaissance Romance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Winfried Schleiner
Winfried Schleiner*
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University of California, Davis
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With all the insights recent works on the history of homosexuality and culture have given us, the best, Alan Bray's Homosexuality in Renaissance England and Eve K. Sedgwick's Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, have also made us aware of what we do not know of earlier periods. While some areas of the tabooed subject will forever be closed to us, others are still amenable to patient labor in the vineyard of scholarship. My present focus is on the three final volumes of what in its French edition has come to be called the Amadis de Gaule, probably the most monumental (twenty-one volumes) and popular romance in the Renaissance. Strictly speaking, only the first four volumes, the ones Don Quixote's curate agreed to preserve for their literary merit, are the Amadis de Gaule; the other volumes are continuations by other hands.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , Summer 1992 , pp. 293 - 311
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1992

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