The Cambridge history of gay and lesbian literature / edited by E. L. McCallum, Mikko Tuhkanen.

"The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature presents a global history of the field and is an unprecedented summation of critical knowledge on gay and lesbian literature that also addresses the impact of gay and lesbian literature on cognate fields such as comparative literature and postcolo...

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Other Authors: McCallum, E. L. (Ellen Lee)
Tuhkanen, Mikko, 1967-
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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MSU Stanley C. and Selma D. Hollander Faculty Book Collection.
Physical Description:xiii, 747 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. The Sappho tradition: imagining lesbian literary traditions Harriette Andreadis; 2. Greek pederasty and the philosophical dialogue David DeCosta Leitao; 3. The ancient Greek pastoral lament Jay Reed; 4. Roman prose and poetry Thomas K. Hubbard; 5. Configurations of gender and sexuality in medieval Europe Karma Lochrie; 6. Male-male love in classical Arabic poetry Thomas Bauer; 7. China: ancient to modern Giovanni Vitiello; 8. From the pervert, back to the beloved: homosexuality and Ottoman literary history, 1453-1923 Abdulhamit Arvas; 9. English Renaissance literature in the history of sexuality Jonathan Goldberg; 10. How to spot a lesbian in the early modern Spanish world Sherry Velasco; 11. Cross-dressing, queerness, and the early modern stage David Orvis; 12. The libertine, the rake, and the dandy: early modern and restoration through the eighteenth century Lisa O'Connell; 13. Homobonding and the nation Peter Coviello; 14. Romanticism and Goethe's circle Robert Tobin; 15. The Gothic novel and the negotiation of homophobia Steven Bruhm; 16. Same-sex friendships and the rise of modern sexualities Christopher Castiglia; 17. African American writing until 1930 GerShun Avilez; 18. Turn-of-the-century aestheticism and decadence Elisa Glick; 19. Black socks, green threads: on Proust and the hermeneutics of inversion Sara Danius; 20. 'This sudden silence': a brief history of the literature of Caribbean women who love women Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley; 21. Modernist poetry Merrill Cole; 22. Queer, cosmopolitan Helena Gurfinkel; 23. Russian gay and lesbian literature Brian James Baer; 24. Spanish literature in the long twentieth century, 1898-2007 Gema Pérez-Sánchez; 25. French and Francophone literature Philippe C. Dubois; 26. African and African diasporic literatures Neville Hoad and Chris Dunton; 27. Notes on queer politics in south Asia and its diasporas Brinda Bose; 28. The crucible of space, time, and words: female same-sex subjectivities in contemporary Chinese-language contexts Patricia Sieber; 29. Mesoamerica mythmaking AnaLouise Keating; 30. Native American literatures Lisa Tatonetti; 31. African American and African diasporic writing, post-1930 Robert Reid-Pharr; 32. Queer poetry in the long twentieth century Eric Keenaghan; 33. Lesbian and gay drama Sara Warner; 34. Contemporary gay and lesbian fiction in English Hugh Stevens; 35. Autobiography David Bergman; 36. Science fiction, imaginative writing, utopian literatures Darieck Scott; 37. LGBT/queer pulp fiction and mass culture Michael Bronski; 38. Children's and young adult literatures Eric Tribunella; 39. AIDS literatures Tim Dean and Steven Ruszczycky.