This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It surveys primary and secondary writings under the evolving category of gay and lesbian authorship, and incorporates current thinking in US-based LGBTQ studies as well as critical practices within the field of American literary studies. This Companion also addresses the ways in which queerness pervades persons, texts, bodies, and reading, while paying attention to the transnational component of such literatures. In so doing, it details the chief genres, conventional historical backgrounds, and influential interpretive practices that support the analysis of LGBTQ literatures in the United States.

This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries.

About the Author
Scott Herring is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. His previous books include The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture, Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism, and Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History. Herring's articles have also appeared in such journals as American Quarterly, Modern Fiction Studies, GLQ, and PMLA.

Awards
Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015.



Book Information
ISBN 9781107646186
Author Scott Herring
Format Paperback
Page Count 278
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 360g
Dimensions(mm) 226mm * 147mm * 18mm