Love, Sex, Intimacy and Friendship Between Men, 1550-1800

'This is a well-conceived and provocative collection that will be important not only to historians of sexuality but to social and cultural historians generally. The essays are focused, original and often surprising, and point toward significant new areas of study. The book is a moving and appropriate tribute to the work of the late Alan Bray.' - Professor Stephen Orgel, Department of English, Stanford University

'These substantial and accomplished essays focus on a precise but densely resonant period, unravelling the links between sexuality, friendship, manhood and subjectivity. A confident, stimulating and entirely readable collection by some of the top experts in the field, with implications for the whole idea of sexuality' - Professor Alan Sinfield, Sussex University

'An impressive and wide-ranging collection, whose contributors, including David Halperin, Alan Stewart, and Mario Di Gangi, are leaders in the field of early modern queer studies.' - Huntington Library Quarterly

'A very welcome contribution to the histories of sexuality, masculinity, and emotion. This collection is an important development in the history of masculinity. It is also an example of how this field is leading the way in gender history.' - Men and Masculinities

ALAN BRAY Historian and Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
MARIO DI GANGI Associate Professor of English at Lehman College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
JODY GREENE Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
GEORGE E. HAGGERTY is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, USA
DAVID M. HALPERIN W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality, University of Michigan, USA
NICHOLAS RADEL Professor of English, Furman University, South Carolina, USA
GEORGE ROUSSEAU Co-Director of the Centre for the History of Childhood, Faculty of History, Oxford University, UK
ALAN STEWART Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New Yor, USA
RANDOLPH TRUMBACH Professor of History, Baruch College and the Graduate School, City University of New York, USA