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Unlimited Embrace : A Canon of Gay title: Fiction, 1945-1995 author: Woodhouse, Reed. publisher: University of Massachusetts Press isbn10 | asin: 1558491325 print isbn13: 9781558491328 ebook isbn13: 9780585084305 language: English American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Homosexuality and literature-- United States--History--20th century, subject Literature and society--United States-- History--20th century, Gay men's writings, American--History and criticism, Gay men-- United S publication date: 1998 PS374.H63W66 1998eb lcc: PS374.H63W66 1998eb ddc: 813/.54099206642 American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Homosexuality and literature-- United States--History--20th century, subject: Literature and society--United States-- History--20th century, Gay men's writings, American--History and criticism, Gay men-- United S Page iii Unlimited Embrace A Canon of Gay Fiction, 19451995 Reed Woodhouse UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS Amherst Page iv Copyright © 1998 by Reed Woodhouse All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 97-48588 LC 1-55849-132-5 ISBN Designed by Milenda Nan Ok Lee Set in Sabon and Optima Bold by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Braun-Brumfield, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Woodhouse, Reed, 1949- Unlimited embrace: a canon of gay fiction, 19451995 / Reed Woodhouse. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1-55849-132-5 (alk. paper) ISBN 1. American fiction 20th century History and criticism. 2. Homosexuality and literature United States History 20th century. 3. Literature and society United States History 20th century. 4. Gay men's writings, American History and criticism. 5. Gay men United States Books and reading. 6. Gay men in literature. 7. Canon (Literature) I. Title. 374. 63 66 1998 PS H W 813'.54099206642 dc21 97-48588 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available. Page v For Larey Allen and in memory of Tom Stehling and Karl Laubenstein Page vii Contact of friend led to another friend, Supple entwinement through the living mass Which for all that I knew might have no end, Image of an unlimited embrace. Thom Gunn, "The Missing" Page ix CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Five Houses of Gay Fiction, Revisited 1 Part One Shame, Impudence, and Ecstasy 1 From the Closet to the Theater (via the Electric Chair) 17 James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room 17 Tennessee Williams's Gay Short Stories 35 2 Sexual Dandyism and the Legacy of Oscar Wilde 51 Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge 53 Boyd McDonald's Straight to Hell 62 3 Immodesty and Immolation 75 Dennis Cooper's Frisk 81 James Purdy's Narrow Rooms 87 Part Two Ghetto Freedoms, Ghetto Follies 4 The Life of Desire in 1978 101 Larry Kramer's Faggots 103 Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance 120 Part Three Four Degrees of Assimilation 5 Virtually Normal, and Vice-Versa 139 David Leavitt's The Lost Language of Cranes 145 Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man 155 Page x 6 Homeward Bound 171 Michael Cunningham's A Home at the End of the 174 World Ethan Mordden's Short Stories 184 Part Four Imagining Death 7 A Wedding and Three Funerals: Four AIDS Novels 201 John Weir's The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket 206 Samuel R. Delany's The Mad Man 212 Christopher Davis's Valley of the Shadow 221 Dale Peck's Martin and John 228 Part Five Looking Back 8 Boy's Life: Neil Bartlett's Ready to Catch Him Should 241 He Fall 9 White Lies: Edmund White's Gay Fiction 263 Afterword 297 More Gay Fiction: An Appendix 301 Nonce, Genre, and One-Handed Books 304 Notes 307 Index 329
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