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Author:

Packard, Chris.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2005

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:

9780312293413 (pbk.)
0312293410 (pbk.)
9780312293406 (hc)
0312293402 (hc)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56194988

LCCN:

2004054124

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)