I find this thread mighty peculiar and I'm not sure I really want to
extend it further, but for articles/books that deal with Spenser's
relation to Harvey and for any possible homoerotic overtone, one should
look not only at Jonathan Goldberg's relevant book and essays but do an
MLA data base check for materials on Richard Barnfield--one essay by
Giantvalley, whose first name I have forgotten touches on Barnfield,
Drayton, and as I recall Spenser. I have a related piece myself on
Barnfield, Spenser, the January Eclogue coming out in a volume edited by
Ken Borris and George Klawitter. Most important here is the impact of
Virgil's second eclogue (on which see also Greg Bredbeck, e.g., on
Marlowe). The point is that Harvey and spenser and the January eclogue is
a rich and complex topic that involves their individual human relations,
sure, but also a literary tradition, a shared memory of a very--I think
"homosocial" might be the term here--education that involved pastoral and
excluded women and was more for the young than for those on whom Saturn or
even Jove shone. I don't know what the relation of Spenser and Harvey was,
exactly, although Nashe called Spenser's affection for Harvey ("this boil
on
the brow of the university") his only fault. But that E.K. (and
Spenser) are flirting with Rome-derived notions of what we (but probably
not they) would call homosexuality, or homoeroticism, seems to me quite
clear. Why they do so, and to what end (so to speak), I don't
know. Bonding? What is amusing/intriguing is to see Richard Barnfield
imitate E.K. in forms of denial that do not really deny. Anne Prescott.
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Peter Zenner wrote:
> Consuelo M. Concepcion wrote:-
> >There are a couple of articles that you
> >may want to examine. One of the articles does relate
> >to Spenser and Harvey in relation to a greater
> >homosexual pastoral tradition. Interestingly enough,
> >I saw the articles on the PlanetOut website (it has an
> >excellent GLBT history section on its site) so you may
> >want to go there. The address is www.planetout.com.
> >Good luck.
>
> Well, I did as you suggested, Consuelo, but I could not
> find anything pertinent to my enquiries. I should have
> guessed that it was a gay & lesbian site -- I felt most
> uncomfortable exploring their closet!
>
> I wonder if the article you referred to was by 'Rictor Norton'?
> Whilst doing a search, a couple of years ago, I came across
> a very extensive piece by him and I saved it somewhere.That
> also proved to be on a gay site....
>
> Peter Zenner
>
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