Reclaiming the Sacred
Subtitle: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Literature
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Harrington Park Press
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781560233541
Subjects: Interdisciplinary Studies; Sociology, Social Studies; Homosexuality and literature; Gays' writings, English; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Gay & Lesbian; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Christianity and literature; Great Britain; History and criticism
First sentence: Criticism has only recently begun to attend to what Davis Bergman calls "the genealogy of transformation that occurs as successive generations of gay writers work through each others' material, transfiguring a homophobic trope into a somewhat celebratory one" (22).