{"product_id":"queer-enlightenments-anthony-delaney-9780802165961","title":"Queer Enlightenments: A Hidden History of Lovers, Lawbreakers, and Homemakers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a ground-breaking historian with a refreshing new voice, an overlooked history detailing eleven stories of eighteenth-century queer people who lived extraordinary lives of resistance, joy, and sometimes sorrow \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor many, queer history began in 1960s New York with the Stonewall Riots, as though nothing and no one had ever come before. In this evocative, wonderfully lively correction to the historical record, Dr. Anthony Delaney uncovers a new era of queer history, illuminating the hard-fought lives of remarkable queer people in the \"long eighteenth-century\" that have long been lost to the annals of time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnfolding between 1726 and 1836, \u003ci\u003eQueer Enlightenments\u003c\/i\u003e is an inviting, at times deeply affecting, journey through the taverns, prisons, and cruising grounds of a bygone era and into the lives of aristocrats, tradesmen, and sex workers who won or lost their lives in the pursuit of sexual freedom. In London, Mother Clap's famous Holborn coffee house is open to all comers, a place of companionship and community, until a tip-off leads to a midnight raid. The celebrated Chevalier d'Eon, soldier, diplomat and spy, challenges a rival to a fencing match. The sweepstake is not over who will win, but over whether the Chevalier is a man or a woman. Two women, later to be famous for the utopia they created in a Welsh country town, elope to be together in a dramatic escape from their disapproving Irish families. At the court of King George, a silver-tongued noblewoman remarked of one of Queen Caroline's confidants, \"the world consists of men, women, and Herveys.\" A Black sex worker endures a degrading trial that labels her the New York \"Man-Monster\"-- but between the lines of its transcripts can be found traces of her life, one of acceptance, resistance, and indomitable spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dazzling work of restorative history, \u003ci\u003eQueer Enlightenments\u003c\/i\u003e traces the stories of people daring to challenge society's expectations, unearthing archives and court records to reveal the tragedies and the joys of queer life three centuries ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthony Delaney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802165966\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802165961\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Atlantic Monthly Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2025 pg. 10","brand":"Anthony Delaney","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47071975276799,"sku":"9780802165961","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_175e2db6-ef8f-4e07-9102-38bb51b8ccea.jpg?v=1753415444","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/queer-enlightenments-anthony-delaney-9780802165961","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}