Revolutionary Bodies av Michael G. Cronin

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<p><em>Revolutionary Bodies</em><span> analyses how a revolutionary imagination is realised in several Irish literary works of homoerotic passion.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Homoerotic depictions of male bodies in writing by Oscar Wilde, Brendan Behan and John Broderick merged with debates about aesthetics, religion, socialism, and Irish anti-colonialism. More recently, a ''post-Stonewall'' politicised gay identity was given fictional expression in the work of Irish novelists - Colm T¿ib¿ Keith Ridgway, Jamie O''Neill, Miche¿¿Conghaile and Barry McCrea, among others.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>These writers challenge and subvert stigmatising ideas about ''homosexuals'' and ''gay men''. Through a series of richly textured and original readings, Michael G. Cronin demonstrates that the writers depict homoerotic relations in stylistically experimental w