Research Catalog

Title

LGBTQ literature / editor, Robert C. Evans.

Publication

• Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2015]
• ©2015

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Evans, Robert C., 1955-

Description

xv, 347 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

This collection of critical essays on LGBTQ literature features an overview of the genre and critical readings of selected works and authors.

Series Statement

Critical insights

Uniform Title

Critical insights.

Alternative Title

• Lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer literature
• Lesbian gay bisexual transgender questioning literature

Subjects

• Sexual minorities in literature
• Gender identity in literature
• Bisexuality in literature
• Transsexuals in literature
• Homosexuality in literature

Note

• Edition statement supplied by publisher.

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

Call Number

JFE 15-4103

ISBN

• 9781619254237
• 1619254239

OCLC

908686921

Title

LGBTQ literature / editor, Robert C. Evans.

Publisher

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Edition

[First edition].

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical insights

Critical insights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Evans, Robert C., 1955- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-4103