Reconsidering the emergence of the gay novel in English and German / James Patrick Wilper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilper, James Patrick, 1981- author.

Series:

Comparative cultures and literatures.

Comparative cultures and literatures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay people's writings--History and criticism.

Gay people's writings.

English fiction--English-speaking countries--History and criticism.

English fiction.

German fiction--Europe, German-speaking--History and criticism.

German fiction.

Homosexuality and literature.

Gay men in literature.

Lesbians in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 201 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

West Lafayette Purdue University Press 2016

West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2016].

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analysing four novels by German, British, and American writers. James P. Wilper studies how the texts are influenced by and respond and react to four schools of thought regarding male homosexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Contents:

Part 1: Religion and Law; Chapter 1: Sin and Crime; Part 2: Greek Love; Chapter 2: Transcending Greek Love; Chapter 3: The ""manly love of comrades""; Part 3: Science and Sex; Chapter 4: The Highest Being Drawn Down into Decadence; Chapter 5: Health, Masculinity, and the Third Sex; Part 4: Wild about Oscar Wilde?; Chapter 6: A Tough Act to Follow: Homosexuality in Fiction after Oscar Wilde; Chapter 7: Das Bildnis des Oskar Wilde; Afterword.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781612494173

161249417X

9781612494210

1612494218

OCLC:

949272962

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access