The Damned Don't Cry—They Just Disappear The Life and Works of Harry Hervey / Harlan Greene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greene, Harlan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hervey, Harry, 1900-1951.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Other Title:

Life and works of Harry Hervey

Place of Publication:

Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina Press, 2017.

Summary:

"In The Damned Don't Cry -- They Just Disappear, literary historian and Lamba Award--winning novelist Harlan Greene has created a portrait of a nearly forgotten Southern writer, unearthing information from archives, rare books, film libraries, and small-town newspapers. Greene brings Harry Hervey (1900-1951) to life and explicates his works to reveal him as a hardworking writer and master of many genres, bravely unwilling to conform to conventional values. As Greene illustrates, Hervey's novels, short stories, nonfiction books, and film scripts contain complex mixtures of history and thinly disguised homoerotic situations and themes. They blend local color, naturalism, melodrama, and psychological and sexual truths that provide a view of the circles in which he moved. Living openly with his male lover in Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, Hervey set novels in these cities that scandalized the locals and critics as well. He challenged the sexual mores of his day, sometimes subtly and at other times brazenly presenting texts that told one story to gay male readers, while still courting a mainstream audience. His novels and nonfiction may have been coded and thus escaped detection in their day, but twenty-first-century readers can decipher them easily" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Prologue

Of Mosques and Main Street

Condemn Me Not

The Blue Road of Romance

Born to Revel

The Gay Sarong

Not Entirely Platonic

Cobra, Congai, and Charleston

Devil Dancer of the Middle Sex

Red Ending

The Mother of Inversion

The Hollywood Express

Passport to Hell

The Damned Dont Cry

The Benison of Work. .. and a Little Beauty

Promised to Eternity

A Singular Elation

Aftermath

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Back Matter

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781611178128

1611178126

OCLC:

1006517210