The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature

Table of Contents

1. The Sappho tradition: imagining lesbian literary traditions Harriette Andreadis
2. Greek pederasty and the philosophical dialogue David DeCosta Leitao
3. The ancient Greek pastoral lament Jay Reed
4. Roman prose and poetry Thomas K. Hubbard
5. Configurations of gender and sexuality in medieval Europe Karma Lochrie
6. Male-male love in classical Arabic poetry Thomas Bauer
7. China: ancient to modern Giovanni Vitiello
8. From the pervert, back to the beloved: homosexuality and Ottoman literary history, 1453–1923 Abdulhamit Arvas
9. English Renaissance literature in the history of sexuality Jonathan Goldberg
10. How to spot a lesbian in the early modern Spanish world Sherry Velasco
11. Cross-dressing, queerness, and the early modern stage David Orvis
12. The libertine, the rake, and the dandy: early modern and restoration through the eighteenth century Lisa O'Connell
13. Homobonding and the nation Peter Coviello
14. Romanticism and Goethe's circle Robert Tobin
15. The Gothic novel and the negotiation of homophobia Steven Bruhm
16. Same-sex friendships and the rise of modern sexualities Christopher Castiglia
17. African-American writing until 1930 GerShun Avilez
18. Turn-of-the-century aestheticism and decadence Elisa Glick
19. Black socks, green threads: on Proust and the hermeneutics of inversion Sara Danius
20. 'This sudden silence': a brief history of the literature of Caribbean women who love women Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
21. Modernist poetry Merrill Cole
22. Queer, cosmopolitan Helena Gurfinkel
23. Russian gay and lesbian literature Brian James Baer
24. Spanish literature in the long twentieth century, 1898–2007 Gema Pérez-Sánchez
25. French and Francophone literature Philippe C. Dubois
26. African and African diasporic literatures Neville Hoad and Chris Dunton
27. Notes on queer politics in south Asia and its diasporas Brinda Bose
28. The crucible of space, time, and words: female same-sex subjectivities in contemporary Chinese-language contexts Patricia Sieber
29. Mesoamerica mythmaking AnaLouise Keating
30. Native American literatures Lisa Tatonetti
31. African-American and African diasporic writing, post-1930 Robert Reid-Pharr
32. Queer poetry in the long twentieth century Eric Keenaghan
33. Lesbian and gay drama Sara Warner
34. Contemporary gay and lesbian fiction in English Hugh Stevens
35. Autobiography David Bergman
36. Science fiction, imaginative writing, utopian literatures Darieck Scott
37. LGBT/queer pulp fiction and mass culture Michael Bronski
38. Children's and young adult literatures Eric Tribunella
39. AIDS literatures Tim Dean and Steven Ruszczycky.

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