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.
Details
| ISBN | 9780816638260 |
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| Copyright Date | 2003 |
| Publication Date | September 18, 2003 |
| Publisher | University of Minnesota Press |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 104 |
| Language | English |
| Notes | Includes discussion of Elizabeth Bishop. |
| Genre | History; LGBT Studies/Social Sciences; Literary Criticism |
| Subject | 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 |