{"product_id":"gay-mens-literature-in-the-twentieth-century-9780814750810","title":"Gay Men's Literature in the Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMainstream academic criticism has usually failed to engage gay work without distorting or ignoring its most central features. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn gay men's writing, tenderness lies side by side with rage, and existential rejection of convention rubs shoulders with sexual hedonism. This groundbreaking work takes us on an unprecedented tour--in clear, lively, and non-technical language--of classic and little-known texts from the perspective of gay experience, sensibility, and desire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with Wilde's and Byron's existentialist outlaw, the theme of social rebellion and the fight against conformity forms a common link among the literary works of the twentieth century. \u003ci\u003eGay Men's Literature in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e presents us with a unified analysis of these, and other, shared themes in the works of James Baldwin, Christopher Isherwood, Tennessee Williams, Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, E. M. Forster, Jean Genet, Joe Orton, Andrew Holleran, David Leavitt, and Constantine Cavafy, and in the love poetry of the first world war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the most unified treatment of gay men's writing to date, written to appeal to the general reader, but based on scholarship so original that it is vital reading for anyone interested in gay studies and gender studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Lilly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.45h x 5.41w x 0.61d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814750810\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Lilly\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer at the University of Tunis and the editor of \u003ci\u003eLesbian and Gay Writing: An Anthology of Critical Texts\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40183699210355,"sku":"0814750818","price":57.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_91685945-3bcc-4733-8a81-1fa67ac78818.jpg?v=1655558106","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/gay-mens-literature-in-the-twentieth-century-9780814750810","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}