Essays on gay literature /

An important contribution to the rapidly growing field of gay literary criticism and scholarship, this volume contains well-written and intelligently argued essays on the the homosexual tradition in Western literature. The first book of its kind, Essays on Gay Literature investigates the ways in whi...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Literary visions of homosexuality.
Other Authors:	Kellogg, Stuart (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Harrington Park Press, [1985]
Subjects:	Homosexuality and literature. Gays' writings > History and criticism. Gays > Intellectual life. Gays in literature. Homosexualité et littérature. Écrits d'homosexuels > Histoire et critique. Homosexuels > Vie intellectuelle. Homosexuels dans la littérature. Gays' writings. Aufsatzsammlung Homosexualität Literatur Gay literature > History and criticism. Homosexuality in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Essays.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction, Uses of homosexuality in literature / Stuart Kellogg
This other Eden : Arcadia and the homosexual imagination / Bryne R.S. Fone
Edward Carpenter and the double structure of Maurice / Robert K. Martin
Inverted type : homosexuality as a theme in James Merrill's prophetic books / Edmund White
Don Leon, Byron, and homosexual law reform / Louis Crompton
Stoddard's little tricks in South Seas Idyls / Roger Austen
Henry James : interpreting an obsessive memory / Richard Hall
William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom! : an exegesis of the homoerotic configurations in the novel / Don Merrick Liles
Merchant of Venice : the homosexual as anti-Semite in nascent capitalism / Seymour Kleinberg
Lesbian hero bound : Radclyffe Hall's portrait of sapphic daughters and their mothers / Inez Martinez
Essay in sexual liberation, Victorian style : Walter Pater's "two early French stories" / Richard Dellamora
To love a medieval boy / Thomas Stehling.