Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914

by Mark Mitchell (Editor), David Leavitt (Editor)

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"There have been several recent anthologies of twentieth-century gay fiction, but Mark Mitchell and David Leavitt's book is the first to explore the texts that circulated before the genre of "gay fiction" came into being, and before greater tolerance allowed writers to treat homosexual themes directly. The result is both an entertaining and a revelatory anthology, and a valuable contribution to our understanding of the literary treatment of homosexuality."--Jacket.

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David Leavitt's first collection of stories, "Family Dancing," was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award & the PEN/Faulkner Prize. "The Lost Language of Cranes" was made into a BBC film, & "While England Sleeps" was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize. Leavitt is also the author of "Equal Affections," "A Place show more I've Never Been," "Arkansas," & "The Page Turner." With Mark Mitchell, he coedited "The Penguin Book of Short Stories" & "The Pages Passed from Hand to Hand" & cowrote "Italian Pleasures." He is recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation & the National Endowment for the Arts. He divides his time between Italy and Florida. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Bierce, Ambrose (Contributor)
Bloxam, John Francis (Contributor)
Cather, Willa (Contributor)
Charke, Charlotte (Contributor)
Cleland, John (Contributor)
Dale, Alan (Contributor)
Grahame, Kenneth (Contributor)
James, Henry (Contributor)
Melville, Herman (Contributor)
Pater, Walter (Contributor)
Rolfe, Frederick (Contributor)
Saki (Contributor)
Taylor, Bayard (Contributor)
Weston, Patrick (Contributor)
Wister, Owen (Contributor)

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1997

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LGBTQ+, Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
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820.8Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literaturesCollections of literary texts in more than one form
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PR1110 .G39 .P35Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish LiteratureCollections of English literature
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