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Displacing Homophobia

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Pages: 320

Published: April 1990

Editors: Ronald R. Butters, John M. Clum, and Michael Moon

Contributors: Ronald R. Butters, Stephen Orgel, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Jonathan Goldberg, Joseph A. Porter, John M. Clum, William A. Cohen, Michael Moon, Robert L. Caserio, and Lee Edelman

The editors have gathered essays that not only make a major contribution to the effort to replace homophobic discourse, but also speak persuasively to all readers interested in literature or literary history, contemporary theory, and popular culture.

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Foreword / Ronald R. Butters 1

Nobody's Perfect: Or Why Did the English Stage Take Boys for Women? / Stephen Orgel 7

The Familialism of "Man" in American Television Melodrama / John R. Leo 31

Across Gender, Across Sexuality: Willa Cather and Others / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 53

Mappings of Male Desire in Durrell's Alexandria Quartet / Joseph A. Boone 73

Colin to Hobbinol: Spenser's Familiar Letters / Jonathan Goldberg 107

Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Canonization of Heterosexuality / Joseph A. Porter 127

"Something Cloudy, Something Clear": Homophobic Discourse in Tennessee Williams / John M. Clum 149

Legislating the Norm: From Sodomy to Gross Indecency / Ed Cohen 169

Willie and Wilde: Reading The Portrait of Mr. W. H. / William A. Cohen 207

Disseminating Whitman / Michael Moon 235

Supreme Court Decisions vs. Homosexual Fiction / Robert L. Caserio 255

The Plague of Discourse: Politics, Literary Theory, and AIDS / Lee Edelman 289

Notes on Contributors 307

Author Index 309

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Paper ISBN: 978-0-8223-0970-3 / Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8223-0962-8 / eISBN: 978-0-8223-9659-8 /