TY  - BOOK
AU  - Woodhouse,Reed
TI  - Unlimited embrace: a canon of gay fiction, 1945-1995 
SN  - 1558491325
AV  - PS374.H63 W66 1998
U1  - 813/.54099206642 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Amherst
PB  - University of Massachusetts Press
KW  - Homosexuality and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Gay men's writings, American
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Gay men
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Gay men in literature
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Canon (Literature)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-327) and index; From the closet to the theater (via the electric chair). James Baldwin's Giovanni's room ; Tennessee Williams's gay short stories -- Sexual dandyism and the legacy of Oscar Wilde. Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge ; Boyd McDonald's Straight to hell -- Immodesty and immolation. Dennis Cooper's Frisk ; James Purdy's Narrow rooms -- The life of desire in 1978. Larry Kramer's Faggots ; Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the dance -- Virtually normal, and vice-versa. David Leavitt's The lost language of cranes ; Christopher Isherwood's A single man -- Homeward bound. Michael Cunningham's A home at the end of the world ; Ethan Mordden's short stories -- A wedding and three funerals: four AIDS novels. John Weir's The irreversible decline of Eddie Socket ; Samuel R. Delany's The mad man ; Christopher Davis's Valley of the shadow ; Dale Peck's Martin and John -- Boy's life: Neil Bartlett's Ready to catch him should he fall -- White lies: Edmund White's gay fiction
UR  - https://archive.org/details/unlimitedembrace0000wood
ER  -