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Contents:
Critical readings. Trans/forming girlhood: transgenderism, the tomboy formula, and gender identity disorder in Sharon Dennis Wyeth's Tomboy Trouble / Michelle Ann Abate. 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 Grimke 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.
Summary:
This collection of critical essays on LGBTQ literature features an overview of the genre and critical readings of selected works and authors.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.