The Cambridge companion to gay and lesbian writing

Summary: "Literature has always been concerned with questions of kinship, love, marriage, desire, family relationships. The central and privileged stories have tended to assume that desire will be desire between girl and boy. Obstacles are thrown in the way of desire. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1597), the heroine and hero cannot marry because their families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are feuding. The obstacles which stand in the way of same-sex romantic entanglements have been much more encompassing. Before the twentieth century, they have, for the most part, been represented as an impossibility rather than a desirable outcome thwarted by circumstance" --

Record details

ISBN: 9780521888448 (hardback)
ISBN: 0521888441 (hardback)
ISBN: 9780521716574 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0521716578 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xx, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, c2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. I REPRESSION AND LEGITIMATION -- 1. Homosexual writing on trial: from Fanny Hill to Gay News / Joseph Bristow -- 2. Psychoanalysis, homosexuality and modernism / Andrew Webber -- 3. Lesbian modernism: writing in and beyond the closet / Joanne Winning -- 4. The erotics of transgression / Tim Dean -- 5. Normality and queerness in gay fiction / Hugh Stevens -- pt. II AFFILIATIONS -- 6. The homoerotics of travel: people, ideas, genres / Ruth Vanita -- 7. The queerness of race and same-sex desire / Kathryn Bond Stockton -- 8. The literature of AIDS / Richard Canning -- 9. Transgender fiction and politics / Heather Love -- pt. III LITERARY TRADITIONS -- 10. Encountering the past in recent lesbian and gay fiction / Jodie Medd -- 11. Queer cross-gender collaboration / Tirza True Latimer -- 12. Naming the unnameable: lesbian and gay love poetry / Richard R. Bozorth -- 13. The queer writer in New York / David Bergman.