| Description |
2 volumes (xxiv, 987 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 cm |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
| Series |
Notable writers
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Volume 1 -- Publisher's Note -- Introduction -- About the Editor -- Contributors -- Complete Table of Contents -- Edward Albee -- Paula Gunn Allen -- Paula Gunn Allen Publishes The Sacred Hoop 1986 -- Gloria E. Anzaldua -- Anzaldua Publishes Borderlands/La Frontera 1987 -- Reinaldo Arenas -- W. H. Auden -- James Baldwin -- Djuna Barnes -- Men Playing Women during World War I Theatricals -- Aphra Behn -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Elizabeth Bishop as a Lesbian Poet -- Elizabeth Bowen -- Rita Mae Brown -- Lord Byron -- Truman Capote -- Truman Capote's "The Diamond Guitar" -- Willa Cather -- Constantine P. Cavafy -- Postcolonialism in "New" Poems by Cavafy -- Michelle Cliff -- Hart Crane -- Countee Cullen -- Illustrations in Countee Cullen's Works -- The Fugitive Erotic in the Poetry of Mae V. Cowdery -- Emily Dickinson -- Emily Dickinson's "Homoerotic" Poetry -- Katherine V. Forrest -- E. M. Forster -- Carpenter Publishes The Intermediate Sex 1908 -- E. M. Forster's Maurice: The First "Gay" Novel in English -- Jean Genet -- Stefan George -- "Gay" Poems by Stefan George? -- Andre Gide -- Gide Publishes the Signed Edition of Corydon 1924 -- Andre Gide -- Allen Ginsberg -- Angelina Weld Grimke -- Angelina Weld Grimke and the Birth Control Movement -- Thom Gunn -- The Homosocial, Homoerotic Poetry of Robert Francis -- Thom Gunn's "Lament" -- Don't Call Us Dead, by Danez Smith -- Marilyn Hacker -- A Stranger's Mirror -- Radclyffe Hall -- Hall Publishes The Well of Loneliness 1928 -- H.D -- H.D.'s Bisexual and/or Lesbian Poems -- Foster Publishes Sex Variant Women in Literature 1956 -- Lillian Hellman -- Patricia Highsmith -- Love and the Country in Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt -- Rechy Publishes City of Night 1963 -- John Rechy -- A. E. Housman -- Male Love and Friendship in Poems by A. E. Housman -- Langston Hughes. "Gay"(?) Writings by Langston Hughes -- Alain Locke and the Harlem Renaissance -- Richard Bruce Nugent -- Christopher Isherwood -- Isherwood Publishes Goodbye to Berlin 1939 -- Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man: A Sample Paragraph -- Henry James -- Larry Kramer -- The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer -- M. Butterfly Opens on Broadway 1988 -- Tony Kushner -- Angels in America Officially Opens on November 8, 1992 -- The History Boys Officially Opens on May 18, 2004 -- Alan Bennett -- D. H. Lawrence -- David Leavitt -- Matthew Gregory ("Monk") Lewis -- "Which of the Closets?": The Deflected Gay Subtext of A Raisin in the Sun -- Audre Lorde -- Audre Lorde and Intersectionality: Examining Race, Sexuality, -- Social Class, and Age -- The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren Makes the New York Times -- Bestseller List 1974 -- Amy Lowell -- Critical Pluralism and Politics: Amy Lowell's "Orientation" -- Thomas Mann -- Katherine Mansfield -- Christopher Marlowe -- W. Somerset Maugham -- Carson McCullers -- Claude McKay -- Herman Melville -- Homoeroticism in the Novels of Herman Melville -- Literary Criticism on Melville and Sexuality -- Homoeroticism in Rockwell Kent's Illustrations of Melville's Moby-Dick -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Edna St. Vincent Millay's Openly Sexual Poetry -- Yukio Mishima -- Volume 2 -- Complete Table of Contents -- Michael Nava -- Frank O'Hara -- Gay Poems by Rafael Campo -- Joe Orton -- Wilfred Owen -- The Homoerotic Poetry of Wilfred Owen: Survey and Assessment -- Katherine Philips -- Katherine Philips's Love Poems for Other Women -- Marcel Proust -- Mary Renault -- Barney Opens Her Paris Salon 1909 -- Natalie Clifford Barney -- Adrienne Rich -- Rich Publishes "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" -- 1980 -- Vita Sackville-West -- Sappho -- May Sarton -- The Poetry of May Sarton -- Siegfried Sassoon. -- Some Homoerotic War Poems by Sigfried Sassoon -- Vikram Seth -- The Stray Greatness of Vikram Seth: Sexuality and Form in -- The Golden Gate and Beyond -- William Shakespeare -- Richard Barnfield's Homoerotic Poetry -- Gertrude Stein -- Stein Writes Q.E.D. 1903 -- Gertrude Stein -- Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and World War I -- May Swenson -- Gore Vidal -- Gore Vidal's "The Zenner Trophy" -- Alice Walker -- Expressing Lesbian Desire Through the Epistolary Form in -- The Color Purple -- "This Is How It Happened" -- John Cleland -- Horace Walpole -- Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Edmund White -- Edmund White's "Reprise" -- Paul Monette Wins National Book Award for Becoming a Man 1993 -- Andrew Holleran's "Friends at Evening" -- Patrick White -- Walt Whitman -- Whitman Publishes Leaves of Grass 1855 -- Walt Whitman and the "Homophile" Movement in the 1950s: -- Evidence in the Archives of the "One Institute" -- Oscar Wilde -- Oscar Wilde Is Convicted of Gross Indecency 1895 -- Tennessee Williams -- Angus Wilson -- Virginia Woolf -- Marguerite Yourcenar -- Bibliography -- Glossary of Literary Terms -- LGBTQ Literature: 1890-1969 -- LGBTQ Literature: 1970 and Beyond -- An Overview of Contemporary Guides to LGBTQ Literature -- A Sheaf of Some Neglected Gay Poems -- A Sheaf of Some Neglected Lesbian Poems -- Author Awards -- Author Birth and Death Information -- Subject Index. |
| Summary |
A two volume set that features the work of both prominent and lesser-known authors in this ever-expanding field. |
| Audience |
10-A |
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Gay people's writings -- History and criticism.
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Lesbians' writings -- History and criticism.
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Sexual minorities' writings -- History and criticism.
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Bisexuality in literature.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Homosexuality in literature.
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| Added Author |
Evans, Robert C., 1955- editor.
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| ISBN |
1637007191 |
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9781637007198 (set) |
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1637007191 (set) |
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9781637007204 (v. 1) |
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1637007205 (v. 1) |
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9781637007211 (v. 2) |
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1637007213 (v. 2) |
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