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050 00 $aHQ75.2$b.R63 1999
082 00 $a306.76/62/0922$ab$221
100 1 $aRobinson, Paul A.,$d1940-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50046560
245 10 $aGay lives :$bhomosexual autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Paul Monette /$cPaul Robinson.
260 $aChicago, IL :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c1999.
300 $axxiii, 428 pages :$bportraits ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Man of Letters and the Don: John Addington Symonds and Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson.$tThe Memoirs of John Addington Symonds.$tThe Autobiography of G. Lowes Dickinson --$g2.$tAuden & Co: Christopher Isherwood and Stephen Spender.$tLions and Shadows.$tWorld within World.$tChristopher and His Kind --$g3.$tThe Detective and the Comedian: J. R. Ackerley and Quentin Crisp.$tMy Father and Myself.$tThe Naked Civil Servant --$g4.$tThree French Novelists: Andre Gide, Jean Genet, and Julien Green.$tSi le grain ne meurt.$tJournal du voleur.$tJeunes annees --$g5.$tTwo American Diarists: Jeb Alexander and Donald Vining.$tJeb and Dash.$tA Gay Diary --$g6.$tThe Closet and Its Discontents: Andrew Tobias, Martin Duberman, and Paul Monette.$tThe Best Little Boy in the World.$tCures.$tBecoming a Man.
520 $aPaul Robinson reads the memoirs of fourteen French, British, and American gay authors - including Jean Genet, Quentin Crisp, and Martin Duberman - through the prism of sexual identity: How did these men understand their homosexuality? Did they embrace or reject it? How did they express their often conflicted desires, in words ranging from the defiant and brutally frank to the ambiguous and abstract?
520 8 $aRobinson shows how all these authors struggled to cope with their sexuality and to reconcile it with prevailing conceptions of masculinity; he considers, through their writings, the choices each man made to accommodate himself to society's homophobia or live in protest against his oppression. And Robinson also discovers national patterns among them as he explores the English obsession with social class and the French association of homosexual attraction with geographical or racial difference.
650 0 $aGays$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009125708
852 00 $bleh$hHQ75.2$i.R63 1999
852 00 $boff,glx$hHQ75.2$i.R63 1999