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In misplaced homosexual Novels, revered popular culture historian Anthony Slide resurrects fifty early twentieth century American novels with homosexual subject matters or characters and discusses them in conscientiously researched, attractive prose. each one access provides you with an in depth dialogue of plot and characters, a precis of latest severe reception, and biographical info at the often-obscure author. In misplaced homosexual Novels, one other element of homosexual lifestyles and society is, within the phrases the writer, “uncloseted,” supplying you with an soaking up glimpse into the realm of those approximately forgotten books.

misplaced homosexual Novels provides an creation to:

• authors who are usually not often linked to homosexuality, together with John Buchan, James M. Cain, and Rex Stout
• the background of homosexual publishing within the US and out of the country
• homosexual topics in novels released among 1917 and 1950—with entries from approximately each year!
• the ways that the preferred tradition of the time formed the authors' attitudes towards homosexuality
• the trouble of discovering distinctive biographical details on little-known authors

if you are attracted to homosexual experiences or heritage, or maybe if you are simply trying to find a complete consultant to titles you could have most likely by no means heard of earlier than, misplaced homosexual Novels could be a great addition in your assortment. The advent from writer Slide—called by way of the l. a. occasions “a one-man publishing phenomenon”—provides you with an outline to the fundamentals of this landmark assortment. subject matters present in a number of the titles contain loss of life, secrecy, and dwelling a double existence, and in examining the entries you'll find simply why those issues are so universal.

As Slide says in his advent: “The method of the novelist towards homosexuality won't consistently be a favorable one… however the works are very important to an knowing of latest attitudes towards homosexual males and homosexual society.” misplaced homosexual Novels might help you extra your personal realizing of the dynamic courting among literature and tradition, and you'll end the e-book with a better appreciation of recent American homosexual fiction.