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The Cambridge companion to gay and lesbian writing

Title
The Cambridge companion to gay and lesbian writing / edited by Hugh Stevens.
Publication
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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TextNo restrictions *R-RMRR PN56.H57 .C36 2011Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference

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Additional Authors
Stevens, Hugh.
Description
xx, 246 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Literature has always been concerned with questions of kinship, love, marriage, desire, family relationships. The central and privileged stories have tended to assume that desire will be desire between girl and boy. Obstacles are thrown in the way of desire. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1597), the heroine and hero cannot marry because their families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are feuding. The obstacles which stand in the way of same-sex romantic entanglements have been much more encompassing. Before the twentieth century, they have, for the most part, been represented as an impossibility rather than a desirable outcome thwarted by circumstance"--
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Homosexuality and literature : an introduction / Hugh Stevens -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
Call Number
PN56.H57
ISBN
  • 9780521888448 (hardback)
  • 0521888441 (hardback)
LCCN
2010019536
OCLC
706431516
Title
The Cambridge companion to gay and lesbian writing / edited by Hugh Stevens.
Imprint
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Stevens, Hugh.
Research Call Number
*R-RMRR PN56.H57 .C36 2011
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