Author

Publication

2003 - University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Language

English

Word Count

32,000 words, Guess

Page Count

128 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC306.76/6/0973
  • LCCHQ76.3.U5 A24 2003

Description

"Henry Abelove addresses the willful misreading of Freud's views on homosexuality among American psychoanalysts; reconsiders sexual practice during England's long eighteenth century; assesses the contemporary relevance of Thoreau's Walden, particularly to queer politics; and traces the emergence of a distinctly queer critique of previous approaches to lesbian and gay history. In the first of the new essays, Abelove uncovers the origins and founding assumptions of American studies as a scholarly discipline; the second evaluates the impact of literature - specifically the same-sex eroticism found in works by such writers as James Baldwin, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Bowles, and Ned Rorem - on the gay liberation movement of the 1970s."--Jacket.

Subjects

Topics

HistorySex customsHomosexualityAmerican literatureHistory and criticismHomosexuality, historyGay and lesbian studies

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