The Cambridge Companion To American Gay And Lesbian Literature by Scott Herring

The Cambridge Companion To American Gay And Lesbian Literature

Scott Herring

‘This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It surveys primary and secondary writings under the evolving category of gay and lesbian authorship, and incorporates current thinking in US-based LGBTQ studies as well as critical practices within the field of American literary studies. This Companion also addresses the ways in which queerness pervades persons, texts, bodies, and reading, while paying attention to the transnational component of such literatures. In so doing, it details the chief genres, conventional historical backgrounds, and influential interpretive practices that support the analysis of LGBTQ literatures in the United States’–

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ISBN 9781107646186
Genre Literary History; Reference
Copyright Date 2015
Publication Date 2015
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Editor Scott Herring
Format Trade Paperback
No. of Pages 270
Language English
Rating NotRated
Editor Scott Herring
Paper Type Electronic Format Available
Subject Gay Men In Literature; Gays' Homosexuality and literature; Lesbians in literature; writings, American – History and criticism
BookID 1686

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