Literary visions of homosexuality
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Literary visions of homosexuality
（Research on homosexuality, v. 6）
Haworth Press, c1983
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Journal of homosexuality ; v. 8, no. 3/4
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"Also ... published as Journal of homosexuality, volume 8, numbers 3/4, Spring/Summer, 1983"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 which homosexuality has been viewed by a variety of authors from the Middle Ages to the present, including William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, E. M. Forster, James Merrill, Henry James, and William Faulkner.
Table of Contents
Contents Foreword
Introduction: The Uses of Homosexuality in Literature
This Other Eden: Arcadia and the Homosexual Imagination
Edward Carpenter and the Double Structure of Maurice
The Inverted Type: Homosexuality as a Theme in James Merrill's Prophetic Books
Don Leon, Byron, and Homosexual Law Reform
Stoddard's Little Tricks in South Seas Idyls
Henry James: Interpreting an Obsessive Memory
William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: An Exegesis of the Homoerotic Configurations in the Novel
The Merchant of Venice: The Homosexual as Anti-Semite in Nascent Capitalism
The Lesbian Hero Bound: Radclyffe Hall's Portrait of Sapphic Daughters and Their Mothers
An Essay in Sexual Liberation, Victorian Style: Walter Pater's "Two Early French Stories"
To Love a Medieval Boy
Index
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