Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion Before Stonewall

by Christopher Nealon

Book Overview

What is it like to "feel historical"? In Foundlings Christopher Nealon analyzes texts produced by American gay men and lesbians in the first half of the twentieth century--poems by Hart Crane, novels by Willa Cather, gay male physique magazines, and lesbian pulp fiction. Nealon brings these diverse works together by highlighting a coming-of-age narrative he calls "foundling"--a term for queer disaffiliation from and desire for family, nation,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822326973
• ISBN13: 9780822326977
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"