Gay & Lesbian 6

How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian ……続きを見る

In a lecture delivered before the University of Oxford’s Anglo-French Society in 1936, Gertrude Stein described romance as “the outside thing, that . . . is always a thing to be felt inside.” Hannah……続きを見る

The first sustained study of the relations between literary celebrity and queer sexuality, Categorically Famous looks at the careers of three celebrity writersーJames Baldwin, Susan Sontag, and Gore……続きを見る

A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life’s wor……続きを見る

Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling sch……続きを見る

Irreverent and provoking, the figure of the 'queer troublemaker' is a disruptive force both poetically and politically. Tracing the genealogy of this figure in modern avant-garde American poetry, Pr……続きを見る

The theatrical world Terence Rattigan built is vital but disturbing and uniquely constructed. His sentences are not impacted or fractured, and his plots usually obey a linear time sequence. Yet his ……続きを見る

Honorable Mention, 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, given by the Modern Language Association Uncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular texts Putting premodern theology and po……続きを見る

This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims……続きを見る

“[An] incisive, personal mediation.” ーNew York Times Book Review Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman’s perennially new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and……続きを見る

Staging Black Fugitivity asks: How does drama constitute an important site for ongoing conversations about slavery’s resonance and its legacies? To answer this question, Stacie Selmon McCormick char……続きを見る

 Queer women of color have historically been underrepresented or excluded completely in fiction and comics. When present, they are depicted as "less than" the white, Eurocentric norm. Drawing on se……続きを見る

Terrence McNally’s canon of plays, books for musicals and opera libretti possesses such a breadth of subject matter and diversity of dramatic modes that critics have had difficulty assessing his acc……続きを見る

Since the publication of her groundbreaking novel, Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison (b. 1949) has been knownーalong with Larry Brown and Lee Smithーas a purveyor of the working-class, contem……続きを見る

The life and works of William Faulkner have generated numerous biographical studies exploring how Faulkner understood southern history, race, his relationship to art, and his place in the canons of ……続きを見る

Starting from the historical link between criminality and sexual deviancy, Lynda Hart builds a complex and original theory in which the shadow of the lesbian animates representations of violent wome……続きを見る

Since the publication of her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson quickly established herself as a powerful and insightful writer on sexuality and gender. However, the pro……続きを見る

The stories in the Grimm brothers' Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales), first published in 1812 and 1815, have come to define academic and popular understandings of the fairy ta……続きを見る

Discussions of gender and sexuality have become part of mainstream conversations and are being reflected in the work of more and more writers of fiction, particularly in literature aimed at young ad……続きを見る

In 'A Rebellious Heroine' by John Kendrick Bangs, the reader is taken on a whimsical journey through the eyes of a strong-willed female protagonist who defies societal norms with her bold actions an……続きを見る

Librarian and scholar Matt Lubbers-Moore collects and examines every mystery novel to include a gay or queer male in the English language starting with the 1909 Arthur Conan Doyle short story “The M……続きを見る

One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books by LGBTQ Authors Emerson Whitney writes, "Really, I can't explain myself without making a mess." What follows is that mess-electrifying, gorgeous, defian……続きを見る

How might art disrupt Arabophobia and Islamophobia in the US? In Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel*,* Mazen Naous argues that fiction is one of the ways in which Arab Ame……続きを見る

In Henry James's 'The Author of Beltraffio', the reader is transported into the sophisticated world of 19th-century literature, where the protagonist grapples with the conflicts between art and mora……続きを見る

Dagli inizi del Novecento alla contemporaneità, un percorso inedito nella letteratura italiana alla ricerca dell'amore che non osava pronunciare il suo nome, un amore proibito da censure esterne o d……続きを見る

Con modalità diverse una cultura gay è sempre più diffusa, anche nei paesi dove sono ancora in vigore leggi esplicitamente omofobe e dove ancora i diritti non sono uguali per tutti. Grazie anche a I……続きを見る

Exploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality What can the Renaissance tell us at our present moment about who and what is “queer,” as well as the political consequenc……続きを見る

“To be someoneーto be anyoneーis about…not being someone else. Miller’s amused and inspired book is utterly compelling.” ーAdam Phillips “A compendium of expressions of wonder over what might have b……続きを見る

This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examines queer literature and visual cultures in China’……続きを見る

An award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys--and challenges--of the genre In Don't Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible intro……続きを見る