Revolutionary Bodies analyses how a revolutionary imagination is realised in several Irish literary works of homoerotic passion.
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.
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
