Michael White, an experienced biographer, has written this brilliant portrayal of his childhood hero – Leonardo da Vinci – arguing that the scope of his investigations, experimental method, and desire to push the boundaries of knowledge made him nothing less than “The First Scientist.”
With this he weaves the history of early scientific endeavour, and Leonardo’s colourful personal life, including his deprived childhood, homosexuality, and relationships with contemporaries such as Machiavelli and Borgia. A thought provoking book displaying the ultimate amalgamation between art and science.
Homosexuality in the Life and Work of Joseph Conrad examines the representations of homosexuality and homoeroticism in Conrad's fiction. Drawing on the work of Geoffrey Galt Harpham, Robert Hodges, Wayne Koestenbaum, Christopher Lane, and others who have already begun unearthing and analyzing this subject, the author traces Conrad's representations of homosexuality and homoeroticism, beginning with the Malay works and ending with The Shadow Line. In Conrad's lifetime, homosexuals came under increasing scrutiny, definition, and censure; same-sex desire was an increasingly contested issue within popular, legal, and medical discourses. Conrad's fiction traces this interest, though most often in subterranean ways.
