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Robinson argues bravely for the validity of 'continuist' approaches, re-engaging the once discredited notion of authorial intention, along with historical contextualisation and close reading, to illuminate poetry, fiction and drama from his clustered classical, Early Modern and eighteenth-century periods. Sophie Tomlinson, University of Auckland Robinson is a worthy successor to Sedgwick in his dedication to reparative rather than paranoid readings: he seeks to repair the rendering of early modern same-sex sexual desire as unknowable and insignificant and he brings together 'both male and female homosexuality, and especially their interrelation in particular texts, as a sign of their interrelation in the cultural imagination of particular times and places' (p. xi). Robinson has written a book that will be difficult to ignore by those who write on same-sex desire in this period: his book should prove to be either a launch pad or a stumbling block for those who follow in his wake. Katherine O'Donnell, University College Dublin, Ireland

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David M. Robinson was Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona, USA, where he taught English literature and Lesbian & Gay Studies. He now teaches English literature at The College Preparatory School, in Oakland, California.

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