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... of the gay novel. Deploying novel theory and genre theory, this article argues that Dancer indicates how gayness transforms the novel and how the novel enables the lived experience of gay identity. Dancer , and the gay novel generally, complicate novel theory's assumption that the genre always privileges...

... that the horrified fantasy is about life outside, not inside, the closet. Dracula, I want to suggest, is a novel about hetero- sexuality as it is viewed from inside the gay closet—as an exotic foreign world, at once alluring and frightening. Indeed, when it speaks of a closet at all, the novel is really...

...Catherine Fung Monique Truong's 2003 novel The Book of Salt is a fictionalized story of a gay Vietnamese chef who, while working in the household of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, briefly meets Paul Robeson and Ho Chi Minh. Rather than assume that the inclusion of historical persons...

..., memoirs, novels and poetry both well-known and obscure, famous and infamous, as he meticulously maps the movements of gay men infin de sikcle London. His topography of homosexuality provides a useful textual and cultural genealogy for a gay metropolitanism so commonly presumed, that it has become...

...STACEY MARGOLIS Copyright © Novel Corp. 2001 2001 Works Cited Bellamy , Edward . Dr. Heidenhoff’s Process . New York, 1880 . Bellamy , Edward . Miss Ludington’s Sister: A Romance of Immortality . Boston, 1885 . Bersani , Leo . Homos . Cambridge: Harvard UP...

...Keith Leslie Johnson GREENBERG JONATHAN , Modernism, Satire, and the Novel ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2011 ), pp. 219 , cloth, $95.00 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Works Cited Gorey Edward . “The Fatal Lozenge.” Amphigorey: Fifteen Books...

... is the culmina- tion of a five-novel cycle dealing with young, mostly gay Californian men in search of the possibility of meaning and beauty. These works too, then, look like novels in Lukics's definition-or at least, Cooper's characters look like novelists; they are embarked upon a quest...

... his- toricizes literary/cultural responses to gay sexuality in African-American culture from Du Bois through Black churches and shows how "Kenan's novel attempts to rewrite the space of blackness to include the presence of a black gay male--even if that presence is deceased'' (111). Indeed...

...Joseph Litvak Michael Lucey , Someone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities from Colette to Hervé Guibert ( Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2019 ), pp. 344 , cloth, $90.00 . Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 With Someone , Michael Lucey completes his “misfit” trilogy, which...

... imagined around figures such as Dr. O'Connor whose desire, as he says, to “boil some good man's potatoes and toss up a child … every nine months” reinforces his queer identity and annexes the importance of disability in many of the novel's characters. Modernist cultural representations of the pregnant male...

... and passing and is mainly used to highlight his central point—that the male private eye of hard-boiled tradition was never quite as reductively masculinist as is often assumed. He does not discuss the recent tradition of gay private eyes, as in the novels of Joseph Han- son or Michael Nava...

...Kathryn Bond Stockton HARZEWSKI STEPHANIE , Chick Lit and Postfeminism ( Charlottesville : U of Virginia P , 2011 ), pp. 264 , cloth, $55.00 , paper, $19.50 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Toeholds and Sticking Points STEPHANIE...

...HEATHER LOVE SHARON MARCUS, Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007), pp. 368, cloth, $65.00, paper, $19.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 Sister Insider SHARON MARCUS, Behuern Women...

...MARYBETH TIERNEY-TELLO RENÉ PRIETO, Body of writing: figuring desire in Spanish American literature (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2000) pp. 295, cloth, $59.95, paper, $19.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2001 2001 Body Criticism RENE PRIETO...

... and distribution regimes, and the careers of dramatizers, directors, and stars. Focusing on the early twenty-first century adaptations of Jane Austen's novels, I argue here that the differing ways print and filmic media are packaged, advertised, and sold or exhibited to potential cultural consumers creates...

..., Catherine. “The Rise of Fictionality.” The Novel, Volume I: History, Geography, and Culture. Ed. Franco Moretti. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006. 336–63. Gay, John. The Beggar’s Opera. Ed. Brian Loughrey and T. O. Treadwell. London: Penguin, 1986. Gieryn, Thomas F. “Boundary-work...

...Marina MacKay STEWART VICTORIA , The Second World War in Contemporary British Fiction: Secret Histories ( Edinburgh : Edinburgh UP , 2011 ), pp. 178 , cloth, $95.00 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press War Without End VICTORIA...

...Joseph Litvak KURNICK DAVID , Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel ( Princeton : Princeton UP , 2012 ), pp. 280 , paper, $32.50 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press A House Is Not a Home DAVID KURNICK, Empty Houses...

... that everyone is in on the secret except Marcel. A gay duke tries to hide his identity from a servant he cruises on the street by declaring (in English) "I do not speak french [sic]. And so on. But the core of Karlin's analysis is his contention that the sign of English in the novel is a "Janus-face...

...Lloyd Pratt This short meditation on the relation of poststructuralism to the novel reframes poststructuralism as novel and considers the consequences of its rise and decline. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 novel poststructuralism theory Some years ago—never mind how...