A road to Stonewall : male homosexuality and homophobia in English and America literature, 1750-1969 /

Since the June 1969 uprising at New York's Stonewall Inn, the very word "Stonewall" has become etched in the American psyche as a synonym for "liberation." Stonewall proved a cataclysmic marker in the lives of gay men and lesbians: it was the point after which gay people wer...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fone, Byrne, 1936- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Twayne Publishers, [1995]
Series:Twayne's literature & society series ; no. 6.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Criminal Bodies: Sodomites and Mollies, 1700-1833
  • Ch. 2. Natural Passions: Don Leon, 1833
  • Ch. 3. Rare Specimens of Manhood: American Homoerotic Texts, 1825-1850
  • Ch. 4. Celebrating Comrades: Walt Whitman, 1840-1860
  • Ch. 5. Waking up England: Whitman and English Homoerotic Texts, 1868
  • Ch. 6. The New Chivalry: Poetry and Pornography, 1850-1895
  • Ch. 7. A Passion Everywhere Present: J.A. Symonds and Homotextuality, 1873-1891
  • Ch. 8. Homogenic Love: Edward Carpenter, 1894
  • Ch. 9. Inverts and Homosexuals: Havelock Ellis, 1897
  • Ch. 10. Into the Greenwood: E.M. Forster, 1913
  • Ch. 11. Intolerable Lives: American Homophobia, 1880-1914
  • Ch. 12. Confronting the Riddle: American Homoerotic Texts, 1897-1933
  • Ch. 13. Sinister Decadence: Homophobia, Patriotism, and American Manhood, 1933-1950
  • Ch. 14. Inventing Ourselves: Gay Americans and Gay American Literature, 1924-1969.