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The status of gay and lesbian literature - for centuries considered marginal at best and corrupting at worst - has changed dramatically over the last twenty-five years. Gay and lesbian programs now flourish in universities around the world, and the body of gay and lesbian writing continues to grow and to enter the mainstream. At no time has there been a greater need for a focused and insightful guide to the remarkable range of literature and its authors. The revised edition of The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage is a reader's companion to this impressive body of work. It provides overviews of gay and lesbian presence in a variety of literatures and historical periods; in-depth critical essays on major gay and lesbian authors in world literature; and briefer treatments of other topics and figures important in appreciating the rich and varied gay and lesbian literary traditions. Included are nearly 400 alphabetically arranged articles by more than 175 scholars from around the world.
This new book significantly contributes to an increased
understanding of the gay and lesbian experience as it illuminates
important works of literature and clarifies the status of same-sex
desire in English literature from 1500--1760. Homosexual themes can
be found throughout the literature of the English Renaissance and
Enlightenment, but only rarely are they direct and unambiguous. The
essays here are engaged in a vital and necessary process of
re-historicizing and re-contextualizing literature. Utilizing a
variety of critical methods and proceeding from several different
theoretical and ideological presuppositions, these essays raise
important questions about the methodology of gay studies, about the
conception of same-sex desire, about the depiction of homoerotics,
and about the relationship of sexuality and textuality, even as
they shed new light on the homosexual import of a number of
significant works of literature. Among the authors studied are
Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Lady Mary
Wroth, Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, John Cleland, and Thomas
Gray.The collection attests both the current intellectual ferment
in gay studies and the richness of English Renaissance and
eighteenth-century literary representations of homosexuality.
Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England provides
numerous insights into important works of literature and into
significant theoretical issues implicit in the process of
discerning and defining homosexuality in texts of earlier ages. All
the contributors locate their texts in carefully delineated
cultural and historical milieux. But they are not unduly
constrained by either the tyranny of theory or the anxieties of
anachronism. Rather than proceeding from hidebound or fashionably
current ideologies, they sift the texts they study for the concrete
evidence from which theories of sexuality might be constructed or
modified. Hence, the collection will be valuable both for its
practical criticism and for its theoretical contributions. It
vividly illustrates the variety of gay studies in literature,
especially as applied to works of earlier ages.
The revised edition of The Gay and Lesbian LiteraryHeritage is a
reader's companion to this impressive body of work. It provides
overviews of gay and lesbian presence in a variety of literatures
and historical periods; in-depth critical essays on major gay and
lesbian authors in world literature; and briefer treatments of
other topics and figures important in appreciating the rich and
varied gay and lesbian literary traditions. Included are nearly 400
alphabetically arranged articles by more than 175 scholars from
around the world. New articles in this volume feature authors such
as Michael Cunningham, Tony Kushner, Anne Lister, Kate Millet, Jan
Morris, Terrence McNally, and Sarah Waters; essays on topics such
as Comedy of Manners and Autobiography; and overviews of Danish,
Norwegian, Philippines, and Swedish literatures; as well as updated
and revised articles and bibliographies.
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