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Gay Men's Literature in the Twentieth Century

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  • © 1993
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Authors:
  1. Mark Lilly
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. The Homophobic Academy

    • Mark Lilly
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Legacy of Byron and Wilde

    • Mark Lilly
    Pages 15-32

  4. The Poems of Constantine Cavafy

    • Mark Lilly
    Pages 33-52

  5. E. M. Forster: Maurice

    • Mark Lilly
    Pages 53-63

  6. The Love Poetry of the First World War

    • Mark Lilly
    Pages 64-82

  7. Jean Genet: The Autobiographical Works

    • Mark Lilly
    Pages 83-104

  8. The Plays of Tennessee Williams

    • Mark Lilly
    Pages 105-126

  9. Yukio Mishima: Confessions of a Mask

    • Mark Lilly
    Pages 127-143

  10. James Baldwin: Another Country and Giovanni’s Room

    • Mark Lilly
    Pages 144-167

  11. The Plays of Joe Orton

    • Mark Lilly
    Pages 168-179

  12. Christopher Isherwood: A Single Man

    • Mark Lilly
    Pages 180-189

  13. Andrew Holleran: Dancer from the Dance and Nights in Aruba

    • Mark Lilly
    Pages 190-205

  14. David Leavitt: The Lost Language of Cranes

    • Mark Lilly
    Pages 206-219

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 220-233
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This is the first full-length study of twentieth century gay (male) creative writing conceived from an anti-heterosexist viewpoint. Unlike mainstream academic criticism, which has as its starting point the idea that homosexuality is sick or depraved, or both, Mark Lilly identifies society's homophobia as the central problem. In addition to an extensive opening chapter, analysing the assumptions of conventional literary criticism, there are individual chapters on Cavafy, Forster, the First World War poets, Genet, Williams, Mishima, Baldwin, Orton, Isherwood, Holleran, and Leavitt.

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