Monumental anxieties : homoerotic desire and feminine influence in 19th century U.S. literature / Sc...
Monumental anxieties : homoerotic desire and feminine influence in 19th century U.S. literature / Scott S. Derrick. [electronic resource]
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New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1997.
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English
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1 online resource (xii, 259 p. ) ill. ;
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computer
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online resource
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Introduction: Authoring the Self: Gender, Identity, and Authorial Self-Construction in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Culture -- pt. 1. Purloined Letters: The Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. 1. Gender and the Scene of Writing: Homophobia, the Feminine, and Narrative in Nathaniel Hawthor...
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New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1997.
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New Jersey
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c1997.
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"Recent gender-based scholarship on nineteenth-century American literature has established male authors' crucial awareness of the competition from popular women writers. Critical work in gay studies and queer theory has stressed the importance in canonical American literature of homoerotic relations between men, even before "homosexuality" became c...
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Monumental anxieties : homoerotic desire and feminine influence in 19th century U.S. literature / Scott S. Derrick. [electronic resource]
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-248) and index.
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English
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c1997.
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0-585-11640-7
0-8135-8569-4
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813/.309353
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991023912659502626