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ISBN: PB: 9780300080889

Yale University Press

November 1999

466 pp.

22.9x15.2 cm

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£30,00
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History of Gay Literature

The Male Tradition

This important book is the first full-scale account of male gay literature across cultures, languages, and centuries. A work of reference as well as the definitive history of a tradition, it traces writing by and about homosexual men from ancient Greece and Rome to the twentieth-century gay literary explosion. Woods' own artistry is evident throughout this elegant and startling book. These finely honed gay readings of selected Western (and some Eastern) literary texts richly reward the careful attention they demand. Though grounded in the particulars of gay male identity, this masterpiece of literary (and social) criticism calls across the divides of sex and sexual orientation.

About the Author

Gregory Woods was appointed to Britain's first chair in Gay and Lesbian Studies by Nottingham Trent University in 1998. He lives in Nottingham, UK.