Reclaiming the sacred : the Bible in gay and lesbian culture /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Frontain, Raymond-Jean (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Harrington Park Press, [2003]
Edition:	Second edition.
Subjects:	Bible > In literature. Bible. Gays' writings, English > History and criticism. Homosexuality and literature > Great Britain. Christianity and literature > Great Britain. English literature > History and criticism. Holy, The, in literature. Religion and literature. Lesbians in literature. Gay men in literature. Bible dans la littérature. Écrits d'homosexuels anglais > Histoire et critique. Homosexualité et littérature > Grande-Bretagne. Christianisme et littérature > Grande-Bretagne. Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique. Sacré dans la littérature. Religion et littérature. Lesbiennes dans la littérature. Homosexuels masculins dans la littérature. Christianity and literature. English literature. Gays' writings, English. Homosexuality and literature. Literature. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Homoerotic texts in the apocrypha: "naked man with naked man" / George Klawitter
The discourse of Sodom in a seventeenth-century Venetian text / Armando Maggi
The (homo)sexual temptation in Milton's Paradise regained / Claude J. Summers
Bakhtinian grotesque realism and the subversion of biblical authority in Rochester's Sodom / Raymond-Jean Frontain
"What a friend we have in Jesus": same-sex biblical couples in Victorian literature / Frederick S. Roden
Missionary positions: reading the Bible in E.M. Forster's "The life to come" / Gregory W. Bredbeck
The well of loneliness, or the gospel according to Radclyffe Hall / Ed Madden
Narrative inversion: the biblical heritage of The well of loneliness and Desert of the heart / Margaret Soenser Breen
Inverted conversions: reading the Bible and writing the lesbian subject in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges are not the only fruit / Amy Benson Brown
"All men are divine": religious mystery and homosexual identity in Terrence McNally's Corpus christi / Raymond-Jean Frontain.