LCC
HQ75.7.R68 1997
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Available
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Publication
New York : Carroll & Graf, 1997.
Description
"Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Tchaikovsky, Oscar Wilde, Ernst Rohm, Noel Coward - these men shared a sexual orientation that ran counter to mainstream society and defied their eras' ideas of biology. This analysis of these influential historical figures explores not only the links between creativity and sexual desire, but also how their awareness of their own sexual mores lent itself to the shaping of their genius."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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LibraryThing member AlexTheHunn
Rowse presents a tableau of indivuduals who may or may not have been homosexual. He seems convinced that anyone who had a slight possibility of being homosexual was in fact so. In this sweeping approach he includes men who may have had a single same-sex liason, and even some who may not have had
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Language
Original publication date
1977
Physical description
xiii, 346 p.; 23 inches
ISBN
0786704233 / 9780786704231
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