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050 00 $aPN56.H57$bC36 2011
082 00 $a809/.8920664$222
245 04 $aThe Cambridge companion to gay and lesbian writing /$cedited by Hugh Stevens.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2011.
300 $axx, 246 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-240) and index.
520 $a"Literature has always been concerned with questions of kinship, love, marriage, desire, family relationships. The central and privileged stories have tended to assume that desire will be desire between girl and boy. Obstacles are thrown in the way of desire. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1597), the heroine and hero cannot marry because their families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are feuding. The obstacles which stand in the way of same-sex romantic entanglements have been much more encompassing. Before the twentieth century, they have, for the most part, been represented as an impossibility rather than a desirable outcome thwarted by circumstance"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aGays' writings$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aHomosexuality and literature.
650 0 $aHomosexuality in literature.
650 0 $aGays$xIntellectual life.
650 0 $aGays in literature.
650 0 $aSame-sex marriage in literature.
700 1 $aStevens, Hugh.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1112/2010019536-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1112/2010019536-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1112/2010019536-t.html