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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Woodhouse, Reed, 1949- Unlimited embrace. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1998 (OCoLC)607050605 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Reed Woodhouse |
ISBN: | 1558491325 9781558491328 1558492593 9781558492592 |
OCLC Number: | 37981719 |
Notes: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
Description: | x, 338 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | From the closet to the theater (via the electric chair). James Baldwin's Giovanni's room ; Tennessee Williams's gay short stories -- Sexual dandyism and the legacy of Oscar Wilde. Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge ; Boyd McDonald's Straight to hell -- Immodesty and immolation. Dennis Cooper's Frisk ; James Purdy's Narrow rooms -- The life of desire in 1978. Larry Kramer's Faggots ; Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the dance -- Virtually normal, and vice-versa. David Leavitt's The lost language of cranes ; Christopher Isherwood's A single man. Homeward bound. Michael Cunningham's A home at the end of the world ; Ethan Mordden's short stories -- A wedding and three funerals: four AIDS novels. John Weir's The irreversible decline of Eddie Socket ; Samuel R. Delany's The mad man ; Christopher Davis's Valley of the shadow ; Dale Peck's Martin and John -- Boy's life: Neil Bartlett's Ready to catch him should he fall -- White lies: Edmund White's gay fiction. |
Responsibility: | Reed Woodhouse. |
Abstract:
In this text a gay literary critic evaluates a half-century of fictional works "by, for and about" homosexual men and situates them in the context of an emerging American gay culture. It attempts to show how the best gay fiction of the period both reflected and anticipated social changes.
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"Woodhouse is a first-rate literary critic of the old school-of the sort I feared had become extinct from breathing the exhaust fumes of poststructuralism. In fact, he reminds me a bit of Edmund Wilson (I do not make this comparison lightly) in his shrewd book snese and his sparkling prose style." - John W. Crowley, editor of Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Chrles Warren Stoddard - "One of those rare works of literary criticism that it itself w work of literature." - David Bergman, author of Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature. Read more...
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