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Uses iconic dandy and queer figures to explore relationships between homosexuality, modernism, and modernity.How did the queer subject come to occupy such a central, and in many respects, contradictory place in the modern world of the early twentieth...

Pleasure, wrote Oscar Wilde, is the only thing worth having a theory about. In Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century, Roy Porter and Marie Mulvey Roberts question the idea of pleasure as unmediated, natural experience. To what extent was pleasure...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888083718Author Katsuhiko SuganumaFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University PressWeight(grams)...

Working at the intersection of psychoanalytic, queer, and transgender theories, this book argues for the need to read Lacanian psychoanalysis through a queer and trans-positive framework. In so doing, it challenges the dimensions of fantasy at play in...

Why is the poetic mode of elegy so often understood as the domain of white, wealthy male poets? What possibilities and limitations exist for rethinking the ways in which we construct an elegiac tradition? Through close examination of the rigid...

The central figure in black gay literary history, James Baldwin has become a familiar touchstone for queer scholarship in the academy. Matt Brim's James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination draws on the contributions of queer theory and black queer studies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635902181Author Kevin KillianFormat HardbackPage Count 664Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)Weight(grams) 567g

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion shows how the "affective turn" in the humanities applies to literary studies. Deftly combining the scientific elements with the literary, the book provides a theoretical and topical introduction to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798230193852Author Kayumba DavidFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Kayumba DavidPublisher Kayumba DavidWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590216910Author Drewey Wayne GunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Lethe PressPublisher Lethe PressWeight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798227850331Author DibyajyotiFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint DibyajyotiPublisher DibyajyotiWeight(grams) 218g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798201325244Author Lisa FriedenFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Lisa FriedenPublisher Lisa FriedenWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039103218Author Rachael LangfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 420g

A survey, within one volume, of the history of critical responses to LGBTQ literature from the beginning to the present day, this book explores changes in attitudes, literature and criticism over a period of two and a half thousand years. For various...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622739349Author Gigi AdairFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon PressWeight(grams) 299g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039114559Author Lucy KayFormat PaperbackPage Count 231Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 350g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087910581Author Terry DyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Indy PubPublisher Indy PubWeight(grams) 152g

Violence, Trauma, and Memory: Responses to War in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World brings together eight essays that examine medieval and early modern violence and warfare in France, the Hispanic World, and the Dutch Republic through the lens of...

Poetic Closets: Gay Lines and the New York School Poets focuses on John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler's homosexuality and their lives in New York City. Ashbery, O'Hara, and Schuyler met because they shared their experiences-and their men-in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988282938Author Tom CardamoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Itna PressPublisher Itna PressWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 24mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608205608Author Ian YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint MLR Press LLCPublisher MLR Press LLCWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 6mm

Working at the intersection of psychoanalytic, queer, and transgender theories, this book argues for the need to read Lacanian psychoanalysis through a queer and trans-positive framework. In so doing, it challenges the dimensions of fantasy at play in...

Where others have explored the teaching of LGBTQ literature courses, Curricular Innovations: LGBTQ Literatures and the New English Studies explores the impact that queer writers and their works are having across the broader undergraduate curriculum of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438427263Author Elisa GlickFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Science fiction has long been a haven for lesbian writers, allowing them to use the genre to discuss their marginalized status. This critical work examines how lesbian authors have used the structures and conventions of science fiction to embody...

Critic, translator, essayist, and gay man, Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century. His writings over six decades are a unique account of a life lived at the flashpoints of history and at the margins of society,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955944079Author M. W. SpheroFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Herms PressPublisher Herms PressWeight(grams) 307gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814212806Author Robyn R WarholFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814257326Author Eric KeenaghanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254141Author Professor Douglas RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820481302Author David RatmokoFormat HardbackPage Count 163Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 400g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253977Author Debra a ModdelmogFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Lost Causes stages a polemical intervention in the discourse that grounds queer civil rights in etiology -- that is, in the cause of homosexuality, whether choice, "recruitment," or biology. Reading etiology as a narrative form, political strategy, and...

The weather in Moscow is good, there's no cholera, there's also no lesbian love...Brrr! Remembering those persons of whom you write me makes me nauseous as if I'd eaten a rotten sardine. Moscow doesn't have them--and that's marvellous." Anton Chekhov,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685710248Author Jason EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Terrence McNally's canon of plays, books for musicals and opera libretti possesses such a breadth of subject matter and diversity of dramatic modes that critics have had difficulty assessing his accomplishment. This book is the first critical study to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888602999Author Clifton SniderFormat HardbackImprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951092832Author Philip GamboneFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Requeered TalesPublisher Requeered TalesWeight(grams) 508g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732906013Author Tucker LiebermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Glyph TorrentPublisher Glyph TorrentWeight(grams) 127g

This work examines how lesbian detective and mystery fiction represents lesbian characters and experience within the confines of the genre. As this book points out, such fiction reveals the lesbian's increasing visibility in the wider society...