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Charles Jackson (1903-1968) is best known for his novel, The Lost Weekend. Published less than a decade after the founding of AA, the novel's intense psychological portrait of an alcoholic captivated both the public and critics. But Jackson's success was short-lived. His second novel probed a subject far more daring than chemical dependency. In 1946 he published The Fall of Valor, a novel about a married professor's homosexual attachment to a young Marine captain. The critics who applauded his frank approach to alcoholism were disturbed that he would write about a subject many deemed unsuitable for fiction. This book examines the life and fiction of Charles Jackson, a pioneer gay writer who addressed taboo issues with insight and sensitivity. The closets of addiction, repressed sexuality, and violence he explored were not merely "untidy" but deadly. His stories about "outing," gay-bashing, molestation, thrill killers, and media sensationalism are more relevant today than when they appeared fifty years ago.
Sommario
Chapter 1 Preface: Rereading
The Lost WeekendChapter 2 Charles Jackson: Discovery and Denial
Chapter 3
The Lost Weekend: A Gay Chronology
Chapter 4 Don Birnam: Injustice Collector
Chapter 5
The Fall of Valor: Doomed to Defeat
Chapter 6 John Grandin: A Matter of Degree
Chapter 7
The Outer Edges: Off the Chart
Chapter 8
The Sunnier Side: Retreat and Attack
Chapter 9 Total Recall: Don Birnam in Arcadia
Chapter 10 Without Apology:
Earthly CreaturesChapter 11 The Last Closet: Nymphomania in Arcadia
Chapter 12 Conclusion
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Mark Connelly teaches literature and film at Milwaukee Area Technical College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he is vice president of the Irish Cultural and Heritage Center.
