A history of gay literature : the male tradition

G. Woods

Account of male gay literature across cultures and languages and from ancient times to the present. It traces writing by and about homosexual men from ancient Greece and Rome through the Middle Ages and Renaissance to the twentieth-century gay literary explosion. It includes writers of wide-ranging literary status (from high cultural icons like Virgil, Dante, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Proust to popular novelists like Clive Barker and Dashiell Hammett) and of various locations (from Mishima_s Tokyo and Abu Nuwas_s Baghdad to David Leavitt_s New York). It also deals with representations of male-male love by writers who were not themselves homosexual or bisexual men.