Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing

Informationen zum Autor Hugh Stevens is Senior Lecturer in English at University College London. Klappentext An exciting introduction to the diversity of approaches to lesbian and gay literature. Zusammenfassung In the last two decades! lesbian and gay studies have transformed literary studies. The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing introduces readers to important concepts! methods and cultural and historical debates relevant to the study of sexuality and literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chronology; Homosexuality and literature: an introduction Hugh Stevens; 1. Homosexual writing on trial: from Fanny Hill to Gay News Joseph Bristow; 2. Psychoanalysis, homosexuality and modernism Andrew Webber; 3. Lesbian modernism: writing in and beyond the closet Joanne Winning; 4. The erotics of transgression Tim Dean; 5. Normality and queerness in gay fiction Hugh Stevens; 6. The homoerotics of travel: people, ideas, genres Ruth Vanita; 7. The queerness of race and same-sex desire Kathryn Bond Stockton; 8. The literature of AIDS Richard Canning; 9. Transgender fiction and politics Heather Love; 10. Encountering the past in recent lesbian and gay fiction Jodie Medd; 11. Queer cross-gender collaboration Jane Garrity and Tirza True Latimer; 12. Naming the unnameable: lesbian and gay love poetry Richard R. Bozorth; 13. The queer writer in New York David Bergman; Further reading; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Hugh Stevens, Hugh (University College London) Stevens, Stevens Hugh
• Assisted by: Hugh Stevens (Editor), Stevens Hugh (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.2010
• EAN: 9780521888448
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88844-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: general, Gay & Lesbian studies, Literary theory