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  • Chapter 3 - Secularism, Race, and Sex
  • from Part I - Transitive States
  • Edited by Lindsay V. Reckson, Haverford College, Pennsylvania
  • Book: American Literature in Transition, 1876–1910
  • Published online: 24 August 2022
  • Print publication: 18 August 2022, pp 59-77
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    Summary

    In April 2019, in one of those unpredicted freaks of internet uptake, a single-frame cartoon achieved a swift small-scale virality. Drawn by “Napoleon / Anthony Bonaparte the Suburban,” it took direct aim at the province of Quebec’s proposed “secularism law.” This law, “Bill 21,” dictated that all public employees would be banned from wearing religious symbols at work – though, as the Montreal Gazette observed, “the law does not define what a religious symbol is.”1 Nevertheless, in a turn that will be familiar to anyone who has paid attention to European legal encounters with the veil, the proposed law “bans people from delivering or receiving services with their faces covered from certain government agencies.” Some religions, it seems, are more unsecular than others.

  • 13 - Homobonding and the Nation
  • from Part III - Enlightenment Cultures
  • Edited by E. L. McCallum, Michigan State University, Mikko Tuhkanen, Texas A & M University
  • Book: The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature
  • Published online: 18 December 2014
  • Print publication: 17 November 2014, pp 241-253
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    Summary

    This chapter considers the canon of English Renaissance literature in terms of the history of sexuality as it relates to relations between men. George Puttenham's history of English literature often is told in terms of relations between men. For him and for many literary historians since, Wyatt and Surrey initiate the literary history of his period; such pairings can be seen in modern literary histories that find the male couple - Sidney and Spenser, Shakespeare and Marlowe, and Donne and Jonson. Surrey's elegy for Wyatt and Spenser's for Sidney suggest that elegy is a form in the period in which male-male desire often is articulated. In his epic, however much Milton celebrates the wedded love of Adam and Eve, he also is intent on Adam's relationship with Raphael, and beyond that, a depiction of the sexual relations of angels as a model for human relatedness.
  • Whitman's Children
  • Peter Coviello
  • Journal: PMLA / Publications of the Modern Language Association of America / Volume 128 / Issue 1 / January 2013
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 October 2020, pp. 73-86
  • Print publication: January 2013
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    Looking at Walt Whitman's Civil War writings—especially his memoir Memoranda during the War and his letters of consolation—this essay argues that Whitman discovered in the war a way to enlarge the vision of sex and sexual possibility he had initiated in the “Calamus” poems of 1860. Taking as a point of departure the babies named Walt that were born after the war to soldiers for whom Whitman had cared, the essay describes the multiplicity of roles the poet inhabits in the war writing (mother, father, nurse, lover, confidant, scribe) and reads his acts of surrogacy as efforts to restore carnality, in its world-making force, to family and, in particular, to parenthood. Whitman's project of queer generation, the essay argues, usefully complicates recent scholarship on sex, time, and futurity.