The Cambridge companion to gay and lesbian writing [electronic resource] / edited by Hugh Stevens.

"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)...

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Other Authors: Stevens, Hugh
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-240) and index. 
520 |a "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"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
650 0 |a Gay people's writings  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Literature  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Homosexuality and literature. 
650 0 |a Homosexuality in literature. 
650 0 |a Gay people  |x Intellectual life. 
650 0 |a Gay people in literature. 
650 0 |a Same-sex marriage in literature. 
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