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Love in a dark time : and other explorations of gay lives and literature /

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The author examines the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential writers of the past two centuries, figures whose homosexuality remained hidden or oblique for much of their lives, either by choice or necessity. He looks both at writers forced to disguise their true experience on th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tóibín, Colm, 1955- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2002.
Edition:Advance uncorrected proofs.
Subjects:
Homosexuality in literature.
Gays' writings > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Gay authors > Biography.
Gays' writings.
Literature, Modern.
1800-1999
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Roaming the Greenwood
  • Love in a Dark Time / Oscar Wilde
  • Sex, Lies and the Black Diaries / Roger Casement
  • Exit Pursued by Biographers / Thomas Mann
  • The Art of Looking / Francis Bacon
  • Making the Casual Perfect / Elizabeth Bishop
  • The Flesh and the Devil / James Baldwin
  • The Energy of the Present / Thom Gunn
  • The Laws of Desire / Pedro Almodovar
  • The Search for Redemption / Mark Doty
  • Good-bye to Catholic Ireland.