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AIDS literature and gay identity : the literature of loss
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ISBN: 9780415808873 9780203098615 9781136227943 9781136227899 9781136227936 9781138936980 Year: 2013 Volume: 29 Publisher: New York London Routledge

Gaiety transfigured : gay self-representation in American literature
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ISBN: 0299130509 Year: 1991 Volume: *1 Publisher: Madison University of Wisconsin Press

A small boy and others : imitation and initiation in American culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol
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ISBN: 0822321734 0822396025 Year: 1998 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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In A Small Boy and Others, Michael Moon makes a contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of sexuality and identity in modern American culture. He explores a wide array of literary, artistic, and theatrical performances, ranging from the memoirs of Henry James and the dances of Vaslav Nijinsky to the Pop paintings of Andy Warhol and such films as Midnight Cowboy, Blue Velvet, and Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures. Moon illuminates the careers of James, Warhol, and others by examining the imaginative investments of their protogay childhoods in their work in ways that enable new, more complex cultural readings. Moon reveals how the works of these artists emerge from an engagement that is obsessive to the point of "queerness." Rich in historical detail and insistent in its melding of the recent with the remote, the literary with the visual, the popular with the elite, A Small Boy and Others presents a hitherto unimagined tradition of queer invention.


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The Cambridge companion to American gay and lesbian literature
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ISBN: 9781107646186 9781107110250 9781107046498 Year: 2015 Volume: *169 Publisher: New York Cambridge Cambridge University Press

Staging Desire : Queer Readings of American Theater History
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ISBN: 0472067494 0472904167 Year: 2002 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,

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Critical and biographical essays on notable stage personalities who made their mark before 1969, when the Stonewall riots accelerated the lesbian and gay rights movement in the United States. How they staged their unconventional sexualities greatly influenced the course of their personal and professional lives, and thus the course of American theater history.

Victorian sexual dissidence
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ISBN: 0226142272 0226142264 Year: 1999 Publisher: Chicago London The University of Chicago Press

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Recent critical and historical work on the late-Victorian period has furnished a vocabulary for discussing gender and sexuality. These popular terms include categories such as homo/hetero, patriarchal/feminist, and masculine/effeminate. This collection exploits this framework--while refining and resisting it in places--to show how certain Victorians imagined difference in ways that continue to challenge us today. One essay, for example, traces the remarkable feminist appropriation of male-identified fields of study, such as Classical philology. Others address the validation of male bodies as objects of desire in writing, painting, and emergent modernist choreography. The writings shed light on the diverse interests served by a range of cultural practitioners and on the complex ways in which the late Victorians invented themselves as modern subjects. This volume will be essential reading for students of British literary and cultural history as well as for those interested in feminist, gay, and lesbian studies. Contributors are: Oliver Buckton, Richard Dellamora, Dennis Denisoff, Regenia Gagnier, Eric Haralson, Andrew Hewitt, Christopher Lane, Tha&iuml;s Morgan, Yopie Prins, Kathy Alexis Psomiades, Julia Saville, Robert Sulcer, Jr., Martha Vicinus.

Romantic genius : the prehistory of a homosexual role
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ISBN: 0231107536 Year: 1999 Volume: *11 Publisher: New York Chichester, UK Columbia University Press

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