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The Work of Friendship: In Memoriam Alan Bray
- A special issue of: GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
- Volume: 10
- Issue: 3
- Special Issue Editor(s): Jody Greene
- Published: 2004
- Pages: 232
- Illustrations: 25 illus.
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1. Introduction: The Work Of Friendship–Jody Greene
2. Friendship’s Loss: Alan Bray’s Making Of History–Valerie Traub
3. Toward A Queer Address: The Taste Of Letters And Early Modern Male Friendship–Jeffrey Masten
4. Love And Loss: An Elegy–George E. Haggerty
5. Male Friendship In Preevolutionary France–Jeffrey Merrick
6. Margaret Cavendish, Scribe–Jonathan Goldberg
7. Poetic Companies: Musters Of Agency In George Gascoigne’s “Friendly Verse”–Laurie Shannon
8. Ganymede Agonistes–Stephen Orgel
9. Book Review: Passionate Friendship–Carla Freccero
10. The GLQ Archive: “What Gay Studies Taught The Court”: The Historians’ Amicus Brief In Lawrence V. Texas–George Chauncey
11. About The Contributors
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- George Chauncey
- Carla Freccero
- Jonathan Goldberg
- George E. Haggerty
- Jeffrey Merrick
- Stephen Orgel
- Laurie Shannon
- Valerie Traub
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Description
The sudden and premature death of Alan Bray deprived gay and lesbian studies of a founding figure. Best known for his 1982 book Homosexuality in Renaissance England, Bray paved the way for subsequent scholars in early modern gay and lesbian studies. This special issue of GLQ collects essays that draw on and expand Bray’s work of the past two decades, as well as offer new work in the emerging field of friendship studies, of which he was a pioneer.
Contributors to the collection include some of the most prominent scholars in the field of early modern sexualities. They think expansively about Bray’s impact on their own work and, most importantly, test the applicability of his theories (that same-sex desire has a history that can be reconstructed and that the actual object of study is difficult to capture, as its expression varies radically across cultures and societies) in areas where they have not been previously employed. Two essays in this collection explore friendships or intimacies between women or between men and women—topics Bray did not pursue extensively. Others deal with locations outside Bray’s heavily English focus, including France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, or apply his theories to periods beyond the Renaissance. Additionally, the issue includes a review of Bray’s The Friend, published posthumously, and an assessment of his scholarly career from his earliest writings to this final work.
Contributors. George Chauncey, Carla Freccero, Jonathan Goldberg, Jody Greene, George E. Haggerty, Jeffrey Masten, Jeffrey Merrick, Stephen Orgel, Laurie Shannon, Valerie Traub
