Unlimited embrace : a canon of gay fiction, 1945-1995
Reed Woodhouse (Author)
In this book, a gay literary critic evaluates a half-century of fictional works "by, for, and about" homosexual men and situates them in the context of an emerging American gay culture. Reed Woodhouse shows how the best gay fiction of the period, like all good literature, not only reflected but anticipated social changes that were afoot - from the founding of the first enduring gay rights organizations through the Stonewall riots to the ambiguous mainstreaming of homosexuality that continues today
Print Book, English, 1998
University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1998
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 338 pages ; 25 cm
9781558491328, 9781558492592, 1558491325, 1558492593
37981719
From the closet to the theater (via the electric chair). James Baldwin's Giovanni's room ; Tennessee Williams's gay short stories
Sexual dandyism and the legacy of Oscar Wilde. Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge ; Boyd McDonald's Straight to hell
Immodesty and immolation. Dennis Cooper's Frisk ; James Purdy's Narrow rooms
The life of desire in 1978. Larry Kramer's Faggots ; Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the dance
Virtually normal, and vice-versa. David Leavitt's The lost language of cranes ; Christopher Isherwood's A single man. Homeward bound. Michael Cunningham's A home at the end of the world ; Ethan Mordden's short stories
A wedding and three funerals: four AIDS novels. John Weir's The irreversible decline of Eddie Socket ; Samuel R. Delany's The mad man ; Christopher Davis's Valley of the shadow ; Dale Peck's Martin and John
Boy's life: Neil Bartlett's Ready to catch him should he fall
White lies: Edmund White's gay fiction
The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture