Essays on Gay Literature

Stuart Kellogg

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781136565991
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

An important contribution to the rapidly growing field of gay literary criticism and scholarship, this volume contains well-written and intelligently argued essays on the the homosexual tradition in Western literature. The first book of its kind, Essays on Gay Literature investigates the ways in which homosexuality has been viewed by a variety of authors from the Middle Ages to the present, including William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, E. M. Forster, James Merrill, Henry James, and William Faulkner.

Index

Abelard, Pierre 140, 147, 161, 166

Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner) 99–111

“Affectionate Shepherd, The” (Bamfield) 14–16, 116

age difference 86–87, 115, 116, 157, 165

“Age of Athletic Prizemen, The” (Pater) 34

Ambassadors, The (James, H.) 95

Amor 140, 143

androgyny 18, 48, 143–144

“Ansell” (Forster) 36

antiquity, homophilic argument from 6, 21–22, 37, 57, 59, 62, 143, 167. See also Greek homosexuality

anti-Semitism 13, 117–118, 121, 124. See also race

Arcadia 4–5, 10, 13–34, 165. See also garden; greenwood; outcast; valley; wedlock

Ashbee, Henry 57

“Aucassin and Nicolette” 140–150

Ausonius 151, 156–157

Bankes, William 61, 67–69

Bamfield, Richard: “The Affectionate Shepherd” 14–16, 116

Baudri of Bourgueil 152, 154–156, 158–161, 166

Bedford, Sybille 129

Bennett, Henry Grey 65, 66

Bentham, Jeremy 56, 63, 64, 70

Bierce, Ambrose 73, 80

Boswell, John: Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality 140–141, 151

Brandt, Paul [pseud. Hans Licht]: Sexual Life in Ancient Greece 27

Brontë, Charlotte; Jane Eyre 2; Villette 7

Brown, Rita Mae 129

Byron, Lord: Don Leon 53–71; “Thyrza” 62

“Calamus” poems (Whitman) 29–31, 36, 45–46

Carpenter, Edward 36–38; Love’s Coming of Age 43; “Man the Ungrown” 43–44

Castlereagh, Lord 54–55

Cavafy, C. P. 4

Chalandrutsanos, Loukas 62

chastity 141–142, 1...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Full Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Editor
• Foreword
• Introduction: The Uses of Homosexuality in Literature
• This Other Eden: Arcadia and the Homosexual Imagination
• Edward Carpenter and the Double Structure of Maurice
• The Inverted Type: Homosexuality as a Theme in James Merrill's Prophetic Books
• Don Leon, Byron, and Homosexual Law Reform
• Stoddard's Little Tricks in South Seas Idyls
• Henry James: Interpreting an Obsessive Memory
• William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: An Exegesis of the Homoerotic Configurations in the Novel
• The Merchant of Venice: The Homosexual as Anti-Semite in Nascent Capitalism
• The Lesbian Hero Bound: Radclyffe Hall's Po rtrait of Sapphic Daughters and Their Mothers
• An Essay in Sexual Liberation, Victorian Style: Walter Pater's "Two Early French Stories"
• To Love a Medieval Boy
• Index