Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-238) and index.
Contents
"In such surrender there may be gain': Oscar Wilde and the beginnings of gay fiction -- "A losing game in the end": Willa Cather's "Paul's Case" -- "The flesh educating the spirit": E. M. Forster's gay fictions -- "The cabin and the river": Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar -- "The charm of the defeated": The early fiction of Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams -- "The plain of truth": Mary Renault's The Charioteer -- "Looking at the naked sun": James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room -- "The waters of the pool": Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man.
