Faust’s Transgressions: Male-Male Desire in Early Modern Germany

This essay provides something of a survey of the evidence of same-sex desire in the early modern German-speaking world, with references to the historical Faust, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Johannes Müller, Friedrich II of Prussia, Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Jean Paul, Karl Phillip Moritz, Christoph Meiners, and Friedrich Wilhelm Basileus Ramdohr.

“Faust’s Transgressions: Male-Male Desire in Early Modern Germany,” in Queer Masculinities, 1550-1800: Siting Same-Sex Desire in the Early Modern World, ed. by Katherine O’Donnell and Michael O’Rourke (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) 17-36.