Outstanding, in-depth scholarship by renowned literary critics; great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the theme and the critical discussions surrounding it.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Dedication.
About This Volume.
Critical Contexts.
1: LGBTQ Literature: 1890–1969.
2: LGBTQ Literature: 1969 to the Present.
3: An Overview of Contemporary Guides to LGBTQ Literature.
4: Critical Pluralism and Politics: Amy Lowell's “Orientation”.
5: “The Battle over the Battlefield: Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and How They Saw the War They Saw”.
Critical Readings.
6: “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.
7: Melville's Sexualities.
8: Homoeroticism in Rockwell Kent's Illustrations of Melville's Moby-Dick.
9: “New” Gay Poems by Cavafy.
10: E. M. Forster's Maurice: A Roadmap to the First “Gay” Novel in English.
11: The Queer Collaboration: Angelina Weld Grimké and the Birth Control Movement.
12: Djuna Barnes: Uncollected Writings on Gender and Cross-Dressing.
13: The Homoerotic Poetry of Wilfred Owen: Survey and Assessment.
14: The Homosocial, Homoerotic Poetry of Robert Francis.
15: “To Croon—Weird sweet melodies”: The Fugitive Erotic in the Poetry of Mae V. Cowdery.
16: Gloria Anzaldúa's Ecocritical Vision: A Spiritual Journey.
17: The Stray Greatness of Vikram Seth: Sexuality and Form in The Golden Gate and Beyond.
18: Trans/Forming Girlhood: Transgenderism, the Tomboy Formula, and Gender Identity Disorder in Sharon Dennis Wyeth's Tomboy Trouble.
