Closet Writing/Gay Reading
Subtitle: The Case of Melville's Pierre
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 1, 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780226120201
First sentence: IN ONE OF HIS IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS to the misconceived debate in lesbian and gay studies between constructionists and essentialists, John Boswell discusses how concepts of active and passive sex roles determine what is acceptable or unacceptable male behavior in Greco-Roman antiquity.