Critical Insights: LGBTQ Literature: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access Hardcover – May 27, 2015

So much of great literature centers on explorations of gender, sex, and sexuality. What does it mean to be a proper man or woman; what if one cannot be properly called either? Should one wield one's sexual power politically? What is the relation between law, divine or secular, and sexuality? These are just some of the questions that this volume examines through an analysis of a wide range of texts. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of ""Works Cited,"" along with endnotes. Finally, the volume's appendixes offer a section of useful reference resources. ////////////////////////////////////   Critical contexts. LGBTQ literature : 1890-1969 / Margaret Sönser Breen -- LGBTQ literature : 1969 to the present / Margaret Sönser Breen -- An overview of contemporary guides to LGBTQ literature / Sarah Fredericks -- Critical pluralism and politics : Amy Lowell's "Orientation" / Robert C. Evans -- "The battle over the battlefield : Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and how they saw the war they saw" / Kirk Curnutt -- Critical readings. "a figure that ... in spite of its present dress, seemed to belong quite as much to one sex as to the other" : cross-dressing in James Fenimore Cooper's Jack Tier / John C. Havard -- Melville's sexualities / Brian Yothers -- Homoeroticism in Rockwell Kent's illustrations of Melville's Moby-Dick / Deric G. Sallas -- "New" gay poems by Cavafy / Robert C. Evans -- E.M. Forster's Maurice : a roadmap to the first "gay" novel in English / Frederick S. Roden -- The queer collaboration : Angelina Weld Grimké and the birth control movement / Lorna Raven Wheeler -- Djuna Barnes : uncollected writings on gender and cross-dressing / Robert C. Evans & Sarah Fredericks -- The homoerotic poetry of Wilfred Owen : survey and assessment / Robert C. Evans -- The homosocial, homoerotic poetry of Robert Francis / Robert C. Evans -- "To croon--weird sweet melodies" : the fugitive erotic in the poetry of Mae V. Cowdery / Lorna Raven Wheeler -- Gloria Anzaldúa's ecocritical vision : a spiritual journey / Cordelia E. Barrera -- The stray greatness of Vikram Seth : sexuality and form in The golden gate and beyond / Brian Yothers -- Trans/forming girlhood : transgenderism, the tomboy formula, and gender identity disorder in Sharon Dennis Wyeth's Tomboy trouble / Michelle Ann Abate.  Read more