Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German

by James P. Wilper

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557537313
• ISBN13: 9781557537317
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"