...of an emergent socio-legal identity facilitated by disciplinary power is, of course, homosexuality: "As defined by the ancient civil or canonical codes,...indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology." His arrival is announced with Foucault's much misinterpreted dictum, "the sodomite had been a temporary...

...outline of the structure of the book. EVOLUTION OF SCHOLARSHIP As defined by the ancient civil and canonical codes, sodomy was a category of forbidden...in addition to being a type of life, a life form. . . . Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice...

...homosexual as pervert quite strikingly outlines the structure of The Way of All Flesh as case history: 'The nineteenth-century homosexual became a personage,...indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology' (43). 28 See Knoepflmacher, Religious Humanism and the Victorian 'Novel, for a fine example of this...

...counterpart to the normative male subject. As Michel Foucault has argued, in the nineteenth century "the homosexual became a personage, a past, a case history,...indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology. . . . The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species." 7 What had previously...

...forbidden sexual acts made him or her "a temporary aberration," the homosexual is "a personage, 29 a past, a case history, and a childhood, in addition...indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology." Perhaps most crucially, homosexual identity is constituted "less by a type of sexual relations than...

...History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Volume I (1979; reprint, New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 42, 103. "The nineteenth-century homosexual, became a personage,...being a type of life, a life form, and a morphology . . . nothing that went into his total composition was unaffected by his sexuality," Foucault observed...

...For example, homosexual acts became reconstructed as the sign of a homosexual type. As a result,"The homosexual became a personage, a past, a case history,...childhood, in addition to being a type of life, a lite form, and a morphology, with an indiscreet anatomy and a possibly mysterious physiology. . . ....

...to "private correction"; Winthrop, History of New England, II, 46. 55. As Foucault put it, because sodomy was "a category of forbidden acts, their perpetrator...nothing more than the juridical subject of them"; Foucault, History of Sexuality, I, 43. 56. Coton Mather's reference to "Sodomites on board" is the...

...adultery, generally punishable either by church or state, but not indicating a category of subject: As defined by the ancient civil or canonical codes,...acts; their perpetrator was nothing more than the judicial subject of them. The nineteenth-century homosexual became a personage, a past, a case history,...