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Author:

Packard, Chris.

Title:

Queer cowboys : and other erotic male friendships in nineteenth-century American literature / Chris Packard.

Edition:

1st Palgrave Macmillan paperback ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

viii, 144 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Homosexuality and literature--United States--History--19th century.
Homosexuality, Male, in literature.
Sexual orientation in literature.
Male friendship in literature.
Gay men in literature.
Cowboys in literature.
Sex in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]-136) and index.

Contents:

All-male queer interracial families in the wilderness: James Fenimore Cooper solves his progeny problem -- Rehearsing and ridiculing marriage in The Virginian and other adventure tales -- American satyriasis in Whitman, Harris, and Hartland -- "Queer secrets" in men's clubs: humor, violence, and homoerotic elision in works by Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and Eugene Field.

ISBN:

9781403975973
1403975973

OCLC:

(OCoLC)65338706

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)