{"product_id":"a-history-of-gay-literature-the-male-tradition-9780300080889","title":"A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition\u003c\/strong\u003e by Gregory Woods. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780300080889.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis important book is the first full-scale account of male gay literature across cultures languages and centuries. A work of reference as well as the definitive history of a tradition it traces writing by and about homosexual men from ancient Greece and Rome to the twentieth-century gay literary explosion. \"Woods own artistry is evident throughout this elegant and startling book. . . . These finely honed gay readings of selected Western (and some Eastern) literary texts richly reward the careful attention they demand. . . . Though grounded in the particulars of gay male identity this masterpiece of literary (and social) criticism calls across the divides of sex and sexual orientation.\"-Kirkus Reviews (a starred review) \"An encyclopedic mapping of the intersection between male homosexuality and belles lettres . . . [that is] good reading in part because Woods has foregone strict chronology to link writers across eras and cultures.\"-Louis Bayard Washington Post Book World \"Encyclopedic and critical evenhanded and interpretive Woods has produced a study that stands as a monument to the progress of gay literary criticism. No one to date has attempted such a grand world-wide history. . . . It cannot be recommended highly enough.\"-Library Journal (a starred review) \"A bold intelligent and gorgeously encyclopedic study.\"-Philip Gambone Lambda Book Report \"An exemplary piece of work.\"-Jonathan Bate The Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45253344886837,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300080883","price":49.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300080889_a4494cf9-f079-40d8-9e90-fc2bd2f9b50d.jpg?v=1779941284","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-history-of-gay-literature-the-male-tradition-9780300080889","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}