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Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German (Comparative Cultural Studies)
James P. Wilper
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Paperback. Examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analysing four novels by German, British, and American writers. James P. Wilper studies how the texts are influenced by and respond and react to four schools of thought regarding male homosexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Series: Compartive Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ACG; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 346.
In Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German, James P. Wilper examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analyzing four novels by German, British, and American writers. Wilper studies how the texts are influenced by and respond and react to four schools of thought regarding male homosexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first is legal codes criminalizing sex acts between men and the religious doctrine that informs them. The second is the ancient Greek erotic philosophy, in which a revival of interest took place in the ... Read more
In Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German, James P. Wilper examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analyzing four novels by German, British, and American writers. Wilper studies how the texts are influenced by and respond and react to four schools of thought regarding male homosexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first is legal codes criminalizing sex acts between men and the religious doctrine that informs them. The second is the ancient Greek erotic philosophy, in which a revival of interest took place in the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Compartive Cultural Studies
Condition
New
Weight
345g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
West Lafayette, United States
ISBN
9781557537317
SKU
V9781557537317
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About James P. Wilper
James P. Wilper teaches literature at the University of Westminster, UK. His interests in scholarship include twentieth-century and contemporary literature and culture, pre-Stonewall gay and lesbian novels, translation theory and practice, and film adaptation. Wilper's recent publications include articles in Critical Survey, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, and Adaptation and in Sexology and Translation: Cultural and Scientific Encounters across the ... Read more
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