Essays by queer studies pioneer Henry Abelove on politics, culture and sexuality: American psychoanalysts’ misreading of Freud on homosexuality, sexual practice in eighteenth-century England, Thoreau’s Walden and queer politics, the rise of a queer critique of lesbian and gay history, the origins of American studies, and the influence of same-sex eroticism in writers such as James Baldwin, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Bowles and Ned Rorem on the gay liberation movement.
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| Title: Deep Gossip |
| Author: Henry Abelove |
| ISBN: 9780816638260 |
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| Genre: History; LGBT Studies/Social Sciences; Literary Criticism |
| Subject(s): American literature – History and criticism; Gay and lesbian studies; Homosexuality – History. – United States; Homosexuality And Literature – History – United States; Homosexuality In Literature; Sex Customs – History – England |
| Publication Date: 2003-09-18 |
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| Publisher: University of Minnesota Press |
| Language: English |
| Format: Hardcover |
| Pages: 104 |
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| Notes: Includes discussion of Elizabeth Bishop. |
| Book_ID: 119065 |