The Romola Code
“Men of Appetites” in George Eliot's Historical Novel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12411844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nancy Henry (University of Tennessee at Knoxville, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 327-348 |
| Publication date | 2011-05-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1503 • E-ISSN: 1470-1553 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1060150311000027 |
| OpenAlex | W2122434426 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 17 |
The fifteenth-century Florentine world that George Eliot studied and recreated in Romola ( Cornhill Magazine , July 1862–August 1863) was characterized by the idea of love between males and the practice of sex between males. Same sex desire took various forms from the love of the older teacher for his pupil to the illegal but common practice of penetrating adolescent boys, for which many fifteenth-century Florentine men were prosecuted, particularly under the regime of the Dominican monk Girolamo Savonarola (1494–98). The monasteries themselves constituted an intense, all-male community of voluntary celibacy. These various sexual behaviors co-existed with more visible heterosexual institutions and practices, from the often politicized arranged marriages of the wealthy elite to the casual coupling of the peasant classes
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Casual · Celibacy · Elite · Fifteenth · George (robot · Literature · Peasant · Political science · Romance · Sociology · Classics · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies
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Selected Writings of Girolamo Savonarola
Between Men
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Queering the Renaissance
George Eliot and Italy
Selected Writings of Girolamo Savonarola
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Sodomy in Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2015 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |