LGBTQ+ Literature in the West: From Ancient Times to the Twenty-First Century

This book explores changes in attitudes, literature, and criticism towards LGBTQ literature over two and a half thousand years, focusing on the West and the past century and fifty years. It provides a roadmap to much of the excellent scholarship on the topic, moving it from the distant sidelines of literary study to a place closer to the center of things.

Format: Hardback
Length: 232 pages
Publication date: 18 May 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

A survey, within one volume, of the history of critical responses to LGBTQ literature from the beginning to the present day, this book explores changes in attitudes, literature and criticism over a period of two and a half thousand years. For various reasons it focuses on literature of ‘the West’, trying to give readers a clear sense, within a relatively short compass, not only of the development of ‘queer’ literature (perhaps the most encompassing of all terms) but especially of critical responses to that literature, notably during the past century and particularly the past fifty years.

All in all, this book offers a roadmap to much of the excellent scholarship concerning LGBTQ literature that has arisen in the last half-century – an era of unparalleled interest in the topic and an era that has moved the topic from the distant sidelines of literary study to a place ever closer to the center of things.

Weight: 512g
Dimension: 164 x 241 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350371828