Displacing homophobia : gay male perspectives in literature and culture

Bibliographic Information

Displacing homophobia : gay male perspectives in literature and culture

edited by Ronald R. Butters, John M. Clum, and Michael Moon

Duke University Press, c1989

  • : pbk. : alk. paper
  • : hard : alk. paper

Other Title

Gay male perspectives in literature and culture

Available at  / 5 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

Note

"Originally published in slightly different form and without the present index, as Volume 88, number 1 of the South Atlantic quarterly"--T.p. verso

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The editors have gathered essays that not only make a major contribution to the effort to replace homophobic discourse, but also speak persuasively to all readers interested in literature or literary history, contemporary theory, and popular culture.

Table of Contents

Foreword / Ronald R. Butters 1 Nobody's Perfect: Or Why Did the English Stage Take Boys for Women? / Stephen Orgel 7 The Familialism of "Man" in American Television Melodrama / John R. Leo 31 Across Gender, Across Sexuality: Willa Cather and Others / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 53 Mappings of Male Desire in Durrell's Alexandria Quartet / Joseph A. Boone 73 Colin to Hobbinol: Spenser's Familiar Letters / Jonathan Goldberg 107 Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Canonization of Heterosexuality / Joseph A. Porter 127 "Something Cloudy, Something Clear": Homophobic Discourse in Tennessee Williams / John M. Clum 149 Legislating the Norm: From Sodomy to Gross Indecency / Ed Cohen 169 Willie and Wilde: Reading The Portrait of Mr. W. H. / William A. Cohen 207 Disseminating Whitman / Michael Moon 235 Supreme Court Decisions vs. Homosexual Fiction / Robert L. Caserio 255 The Plague of Discourse: Politics, Literary Theory, and AIDS / Lee Edelman 289 Notes on Contributors 307 Author Index 309

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

Page Top