The Cambridge companion to gay and lesbian writing /

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Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xx, 246 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	The Cambridge companions complete collection The Cambridge companions to literature and classics Cambridge collections online. Cambridge companions complete collection. Cambridge companions to literature and classics.
Subject:	Gays' writings -- History and criticism. Literature -- History and criticism. Homosexuality and literature. Homosexuality in literature. Gays -- Intellectual life. Gays in literature. Gays in literature. Gays' writings. Homosexuality and literature. Homosexuality in literature. Literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12473778

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Varying Form of Title:	Companion to gay and lesbian writing Gay and lesbian writing
Other authors / contributors:	Stevens, Hugh, editor.
ISBN:	0511781709 9780511781704 1139801848 9781139801843 9780521888448 0521888441 9780521716574 0521716578
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed June 15, 2020).
Summary:	"Literature has always been concerned with questions of kinship, love, marriage, desire, family relationships. The central and privileged stories have tended to assume that desire will be desire between girl and boy. Obstacles are thrown in the way of desire. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1597), the heroine and hero cannot marry because their families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are feuding. The obstacles which stand in the way of same-sex romantic entanglements have been much more encompassing. Before the twentieth century, they have, for the most part, been represented as an impossibility rather than a desirable outcome thwarted by circumstance"--
Other form:	Print version: Cambridge companion to gay and lesbian writing. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 9780521888448

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