The Cambridge companion to gay and lesbian writing

The Cambridge companion to gay and lesbian writing / edited by Hugh Stevens.

In the last two decades, lesbian and gay studies have transformed literary studies and developed into a vital and influential area for students and scholars. This Companion introduces readers to the range of debates that inform studies of works by lesbian and gay writers and of literary representati...

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Other Authors: Stevens, Hugh (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:
Gays' writings > History and criticism.
Same-sex marriage in literature.
Gays in literature.
Gays > Intellectual life.
Homosexuality in literature.
Homosexuality and literature.
Literature > History and criticism.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Homosexuality and literature : an introduction / Hugh Stevens
  • Part I: Repession and legitimation. Homosexual writing on trial : from Fanny Hill to Gay news / Joseph Bristow ; Psychoanalysis, homosexuality and modernism / Andrew Webber ; Lesbian modernism : writing in and beyond the closet / Joanne Winning ; The erotics of transgression / Tim Dean ; Normality and queerness in gay fiction / Hugh Stevens
  • Part II: Affiliations. The homoerotics of travel : people, ideas, genres / Ruth Vanita ; The queerness of race and same-sex desire / Kathryn Bond Stockton ; The literature of AIDS / Richard Canning ; Transgender fiction and politics / Heather Love
  • Part III: Literary traditions. Encountering the past in recent lesbian and gay fiction / Jodie Medd ; Queer cross-gender collaboration / Jane Garrity and Tirza True Latimer ; Naming the unnamable : lesbian and gay love poetry / Richard R. Bozorth ; The queer writer in New York / David Bergman.

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