Deep gossip
By: Henry Abelove.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press; Brand: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Matthiessen, F. O. 1902-1950; Homosexuality -- United States -- History; Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History; Sex customs -- England -- History -- 18th century; American literature -- History and criticism; Homosexuality in literature; Gay and lesbian studies
Description: "Henry Abelove addresses the willful misreading of Freud's views on homosexuality among American psychoanalysts; reconsiders sexual practice during England's long eighteenth century; assesses the contemporary relevance of Thoreau's Walden, particularly to queer politics; and traces the emergence of a distinctly queer critique of previous approaches to lesbian and gay history. In the first of the new essays, Abelove uncovers the origins and founding assumptions of American studies as a scholarly discipline; the second evaluates the impact of literature - specifically the same-sex eroticism found in works by such writers as James Baldwin, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Bowles, and Ned Rorem - on the gay liberation movement of the 1970s."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : deep gossip; title: Freud, male homosexuality, and the Americans; title: Some speculations on the history of sexual intercourse during the long eighteenth century in England; title: From Thoreau to queer politics; title: The queering of lesbian/gay history; title: American studies, queer studies; title: New York City gay liberation and the queer commuters.