Title: Willa Cather's sexual aesthetics and the male homosexual literary tradition
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.
Subjects: American Aesthetics, Characters, Gay men in literature, History, Homosexuality and literature, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Male friendship in literature, Men, Men in literature, Sex in literature, Cather, willa, 1873-1947
Places: United States
People: Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Time periods: 20th century