Joseph M. Ortiz

Gordon Merrick and the Great Gay American Novel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gordon Merrick and the Great Gay American Novel is the first biography of Gordon Merrick, the ubiquitous and controversial novelist who inaugurated the tradition of gay romance. The book is a fascinating account of a neglected major figure in gay literary history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9781793635662
• ISBN-10: 1793635668
• Artikelnr.: 69453864

Autorenporträt

By Joseph M. Ortiz

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Autobiography of a Gay Reader
Chapter One: An American Dynasty
Chapter Two: Et Ego In Arcadia: Princeton
Chapter Three: The Great White Way
Chapter Four: The Spy
Chapter Five: The Postwar Novelist
Chapter Six: Connecting with Forster
Chapter Seven: The Protest Novelist
Chapter Eight: The Dancer from San Francisco
Chapter Nine: The Island of Dreams
Chapter Ten: The Great Gay American Novel
Chapter Eleven: Getting It Published
Chapter Twelve: The Irene Rockwood Phenomenon
Chapter Thirteen: Going Greek, or Making a Gay Mythology
Chapter Fourteen: A Return to the Stage
Chapter Fifteen: Adventures in the East
Chapter Sixteen: Rewriting the Past
Chapter Seventeen: Merrick vs. Kramer
Chapter Eighteen: Imperfect Freedom
Afterword: Gay Literary Canons
Bibliography
About the Author
Index