Olga Petri: Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg

UK 2022, 254 pp., hardbound, € 79.95
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Cornell University Press
»Places of Tenderness and Heat« is a ground-level exploration of queer St. Petersburg at the fin-de-siècle. Olga Petri takes us through busy shopping arcades, bathhouses, and public urinals to show how queer men routinely met and socialized. She reconstructs the milieu that enabled them to navigate a city full of risk and opportunity. Focusing on a non-Western, unexplored, and fragile ... Weiterlesen

Constance Brown Kuriyama: Christopher Marlowe

A Renaissance Life. USA 2010, 255 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Cornell University Press
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) emerges in most accounts of his life by biographers and critics as a mysterious and sensational action figure, a hapless pawn of circumstance, or a pseudonymous cipher. Constance Brown Kuriyama's biography reconstructs the eventful life of a radically innovative playwright who flourished briefly and died violently more than four hundred years ago, yet persists in the romantic ... Weiterlesen