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Categorically famous : literary celebrity and sexual liberation in 1960s America / Guy Davidson.
LIBRA PS153.G38 D39 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davidson, Guy, author.
- Series:
- Post 45
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fame--Social aspects.
- History.
- Sexual minorities.
- Identity (Philosophical concept).
- Celebrities--Sexual behavior.
- Celebrities.
- Gay authors.
- United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.
- United States.
- Social conditions.
- Gay authors--United States--History--20th century.
- Celebrities--Sexual behavior--United States--History.
- Sexual minorities--United States--Identity--History.
- Gay liberation movement--United States--History.
- Gay liberation movement.
- Fame--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Fame.
- Sexual minorities--Identity.
- Sexual practices.
- Sexuality.
- LGBTQ+ history.
- Sexual identity.
- LGBTQ+ people.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 227 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- James Baldwin and celebrity shame
- Baldwin and the celebrity novel
- Susan Sontag's impersonal stardom
- From camp to counterculture
- The moment of Myra Breckinridge
- Gore Vidal's sexuality in the public sphere
- Afterword : visibility, revisited; or, delete the closet?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Davidson, Guy, author. Categorically famous
- ISBN:
- 9781503602359
- 1503602354
- 9781503609198
- 1503609197
- OCLC:
- 1048934269
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