An edition of Comme un frère, comme un amant (1976)

Like a Brother, Like a Lover

Male Homosexuality in the American Novel and Theater from Herman Melville to James Baldwin

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An edition of Comme un frère, comme un amant (1976)

Like a Brother, Like a Lover

Male Homosexuality in the American Novel and Theater from Herman Melville to James Baldwin

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Anchor Press/Doubleday
Language
English, French
Pages
339

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American literature Gay men Gay men in literature Gay men's writings, American History and criticism Homosexuality and literature Intellectual life Masculinity in literature Homosexuality in literature Men in literature Théâtre américain Histoire et critique Homosexualité dans la littérature Roman américain LGBTQ literary criticism

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Like a Brother, Like a Lover: Male Homosexuality in the American Novel and Theater from Herman Melville to James Baldwin
1978, Anchor Press/Doubleday
in English and French
Cover of: Comme un frère, comme un amant
Comme un frère, comme un amant: l'homosexualité masculine dans le roman et le théâtre américains de Herman Melville à James Baldwin
1976, Flammarion
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Table of Contents

Preface to the American Edition
Page ix
Introduction
Page xiii
Part I. A History
1. The Evolution of the American Sexual "Establishment"
Page 3
2. The Evolution of the Homosexual in the American Novel - Melville to Baldwin
Page 12
3. The Homosexual Character on Stage
Page 30
Part II. Four Archetypes of the Homosexual Couple
4. Adolescents
Page 37
5. Teacher and Pupil
Page 61
6. The Captain and the Soldier
Page 70
7. The White and the Black
Page 92
Part III. Homosexuality and the Theater
8. Tennessee Williams: Theater as Psychotherapy
Page 107
9. William Inge: "Homosexual Spite" in Action
Page 121
10. Edward Albee: Homosexual Playwright in Spite of Himself
Page 134
Part IV. The Circumstances of the Homosexual as Reflected in the Novel and Theater
11. Small Town and Big City
Page 153
12. Three Categories of Homosexual
Page 164
13. Between the American Woman and the American Virile Ideal
Page 185
Part V. Latent Homosexuality: Short of and Beyond True Heterosexuality
14. Henry James: The Feminine Masochist Syndrome
Page 197
15. Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Self-virilization and Its Failure
Page 212
16. The Feminine-Masochist Temperament in Certain Jewish Characters
Page 229
17. Jack London: The Hypervirile Syndrome
Page 240
18. Ernest Hemingway: The (Almost) Total Sublimation of the Homosexual Instinct
Page 262
19. Norman Mailer: The Overt Latent Homosexual
Page 279
Conclusion: Another Country
Page 293

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. [306]-327.
Includes index.

Published in
Garden City, N.Y
Translation Of
Comme un frère, comme un amant
Translated From
French

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
810/.9/352
Library of Congress
PS169.H65 S213 1978

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Pagination
xv, 339 p. ;
Number of pages
339

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL4565705M
Internet Archive
likebrotherlikel0000saro
ISBN 10
0385127650
LCCN
77080912
OCLC/WorldCat
3818800
LibraryThing
966388
Goodreads
674207

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OL4850586W

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