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 reasons it focuses on literature of 'the West', trying to give readers a clear sense, within a relatively short compass, not only of the development of 'queer' literature (perhaps the most encompassing of all terms) but especially of critical responses to that literature, notably during the past century and particularly the past fifty years.
All in all, this book offers a roadmap to much of the excellent scholarship concerning LGBTQ literature that has arisen in the last half-century - an era of unparalleled interest in the topic and an era that has moved the topic from the distant sidelines of literary study to a place ever closer to the center of things.
| ISBN: | 9781350371828 |
| Publication date: | 18th May 2023 |
| Author: | Robert C Evans |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 232 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600 Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: from c 2000 Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary studies: plays and playwrights Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |