| Description |
xii, 218 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : straight talk / Mark Lilly -- Ivy Compton-Burnett : family as nightmare / Susan Crecy -- "Keepers of history" : the novels of Maureen Duffy / Lyndie Brimstone -- "I am a woman" : Ann Bannon and the writing of lesbian identity in the 1950s / Diane Hamer -- "The naked majesty of God" : contemporary lesbian erotic poetry / Caroline Halliday -- Exiled to home : the poetry of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland / Gillian Spraggs -- Starless and Black : alienation in gay literature / Terry Woods -- Tennessee Williams : The glass menagerie and A streetcar named desire / Mark Lilly -- One-handed reading / Rupert Smith -- "Absurd! ridiculous! disgusting!" : paradox in poetry by gay men / Gregory Woods. |
|
"The power to convey the unuttered" : style and sexuality in the work of Ronald Firbank / Paul Davies. |
| Subject |
Gay people's writings, English -- History and criticism.
|
|
Gays' writings, American -- History and criticism.
|
|
Gays' writings, American. |
|
Homosexuality and literature -- English-speaking countries.
|
|
Homosexuality and literature. |
|
English-speaking countries. |
|
Homosexuality in literature.
|
|
Homosexuality in literature. |
|
Lesbians in literature.
|
|
Lesbians in literature. |
|
Gay men in literature.
|
|
Gay men in literature. |
| Added Author |
Lilly, Mark.
|
| ISBN |
0877227063 |
|
