Unlimited embrace
Subtitle: a canon of gay fiction, 1945-1995
By: Reed Woodhouse.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Gay men's writings, American -- History and criticism.; Gay men -- Books and reading -- United States.; Gay men -- United States -- Intellectual life.; Gay men in literature.; Canon (Literature)
Description: In this book, a gay literary critic evaluates a half-century of fictional works "by, for, and about" homosexual men and situates them in the context of an emerging American gay culture. Reed Woodhouse shows how the best gay fiction of the period, like all good literature, not only reflected but anticipated social changes that were afoot - from the founding of the first enduring gay rights organizations through the Stonewall riots to the ambiguous mainstreaming of homosexuality that continues today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-327) and index.