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The Seduction of the Mediterranean

The Seduction of the Mediterranean

Robert Aldrich

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
1993
Materia
Historia
ISBN:
9780415093125
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Through an exploration of forty figures in European culture, the author argues that the Mediterranean, classical and contemporary, was the central theme in homoerotic writing and art from the 1750s to the 1950s.

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