Willa Cather's sexual aesthetics and the male homosexual literary tradition
By: John P. Anders.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Characters -- Men; Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- History -- 20th century; Male friendship in literature; Gay men in literature; Aesthetics, American; Men in literature; Sex in literature
Description: "In this first full-length study of male homosexuality in Cather's short stories and novels, John P. Anders examines patterns of male friendship ranging on a continuum from the social to the sexual. He argues that Cather worked in the familiar tradition of friendship literature inspired by classical and Christian texts and also borrowed from a homosexual legacy that is part of, yet distinct from, established literary traditions.

In combining these two traditions Cather gave her fiction an unexpected depth and complexity."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-174) and index.