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Popular Romantic poet (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Don Juan), creator of the brooding "Byronic hero".

He became the good friend (only friend — I am sure he would not touch a full-grown man) of Samuel Elsworth Cottam at Exeter College in the s, whose magazine.

Rictor Norton is the renowned historian of early modern and nineteenth-century homosexuality, best known for his book Mother Clap's Molly House.

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Eight months later he hanged himself.

Rictor Norton is the renowned historian of early modern and nineteenth-century homosexuality, best known for his book Mother Clap's Molly House..

The Myth of the Modern Homosexual:

Queer History and the Search for Cultural Unity

About the Book:

The Myth of the Modern Homosexual demolishes the myth that "the homosexual" was invented in modern times.

With careful reasoning supported by wide-ranging scholarship, cultural historian Rictor Norton exposes the fallacies of "social constructionist" theories that currently dominate lesbian and gay studies, and argues the case for the autonomy of queer identities and culture.

Addressing the general (queer) reader in clear jargon-free terms, the author unashamedly sites himself within the "essentialist" camp, and presents the evidence that queers are part of a centuries-old history, possessing a unified historical cultural identity.

Norton reviews the fundamental historiographical issues about the nature of queer history, arguing that a new generation of queer historians will need to abandon authoritarian dogma founded upon politically correct ideology rather than historical