| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
xv, 347 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Note |
Edition statement supplied by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Critical contexts. LGBTQ literature: 1890-1969 / Margaret Sönser Breen ; LGBTQ literature: 1969 to the present / Margaret Sönser Breen ; An overview of contemporary guides to LGBTQ literature / Sarah Fredericks ; Critical pluralism and politics: Amy Lowell's "Orientation" / Robert C. Evans ; "The battle over the battlefield: Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and how they saw the war they saw" / Kirk Curnutt -- Critical readings. "a figure that... in spite of its present dress, seemed to belong quite as much to one sex as to the other": cross-dressing in James Fenimore Cooper's Jack Tier / John C. Havard ; Melville's sexualities / Brian Yothers ; Homoeroticism in Rockwell Kent's illustrations of Melville's Moby-Dick / Deric G. Sallas ; "New" gay poems by Cavafy / Robert C. Evans ; E.M. Forster's Maurice: a roadmap to the first "gay" novel in English / Frederick S. Roden ; The queer collaboration: Angelina Weld Grimke and the birth control movement / Lorna Raven Wheeler ; Djuna Barnes: uncollected writings on gender and cross-dressing / Robert C. Evans & Sarah Fredericks ; The homoerotic poetry of Wilfred Owen: survey and assessment / Robert C. Evans ; The homosocial, homoerotic poetry of Robert Francis / Robert C. Evans ; "To croon--weird sweet melodies": the fugitive erotic in the poetry of Mae V. Cowdery / Lorna Raven Wheeler ; Gloria Anzaldúa's ecocritical vision: a spiritual journey / Cordelia E. Barrera ; The stray greatness of Vikram Seth: sexuality and form in The Golden Gate and beyond / Brian Yothers ; Trans/forming girlhood: transgenderism, the tomboy formula, and gender identity disorder in Sharon Dennis Wyeth's Tomboy Trouble / Michelle Ann Abate. |
| Summary |
This collection of critical essays on LGBTQ literature features an overview of the genre and critical readings of selected works and authors. |
| Subject |
Sexual minorities in literature.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Homosexuality in literature.
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Bisexuality in literature.
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Transsexuals in literature.
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| Added Author |
Evans, Robert C., 1955- editor.
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| Added Title |
Lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer literature |
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Lesbian gay bisexual transgender questioning literature |
| ISBN |
9781619254237 (hardcover) |
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1619254239 (hardcover) |
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