Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage

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Claude J. Summers
Routledge, Feb 25, 2014 - Literary Criticism - 764 pages

The revised edition of The Gay and Lesbian LiteraryHeritage is a reader's companion to this impressive body of work. It provides overviews of gay and lesbian presence in a variety of literatures and historical periods; in-depth critical essays on major gay and lesbian authors in world literature; and briefer treatments of other topics and figures important in appreciating the rich and varied gay and lesbian literary traditions. Included are nearly 400 alphabetically arranged articles by more than 175 scholars from around the world. New articles in this volume feature authors such as Michael Cunningham, Tony Kushner, Anne Lister, Kate Millet, Jan Morris, Terrence McNally, and Sarah Waters; essays on topics such as Comedy of Manners and Autobiography; and overviews of Danish, Norwegian, Philippines, and Swedish literatures; as well as updated and revised articles and bibliographies.

 

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About the author (2014)

Claude J. Summers is William E. Stirton Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. He has written widely on 17th-century English literature; written book-length critical studies on Christopher Marlowe, E. M. Forster, and Christopher Isherwood; and is the author of GayFictions: Wilde to Stonewall. He received the Lambda Literary Award for the first edition of The Gay andLesbian Literary Heritage.

Bibliographic information

TitleGay and Lesbian Literary Heritage
EditorClaude J. Summers
Edition2, revised
PublisherRoutledge, 2014
ISBN1135303991, 9781135303990
Length764 pages
Subjects › 

Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / LGBTQ
  
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