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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822476003321

Titolo

Reclaiming the sacred : the Bible in gay and lesbian culture / / Raymond-Jean Frontain, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

0-203-05718-X

1-299-46051-8

1-136-57096-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FrontainRaymond-Jean

Disciplina

820.9/920664

Soggetti

Gay people's writings, English - History and criticism

Homosexuality and literature - Great Britain

Christianity and literature - Great Britain

English literature - History and criticism

Holy, The, in literature

Religion and literature

Lesbians in literature

Gay men in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published by the Haworth Press, Inc., in 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture; Copyright; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR; CONTRIBUTORS; Preface to the Second Edition; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Homoerotic Texts in the Apocrypha: "Naked Man with Naked Man"; Chapter 3 The Discourse of Sodom in a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Text; Chapter 4 The (Homo)Sexual Temptation in Milton's Paradise Regained; Chapter 5 Bakhtinian Grotesque Realism and the Subversion of Biblical Authority in Rochester's Sodom; Chapter 6 "What a Friend We Have in Jesus": Same-Sex Biblical Couples in Victorian Literature

Chapter 7 Missionary Positions: Reading the Bible in E. M. Forster's "The Life to Come"Chapter 8 The Well of Loneliness, or The Gospel According to Radclyffe Hall; Chapter 9 Narrative Inversion: The Biblical Heritage of The Well of Loneliness and Desert of the Heart; Chapter 10 Inverted Conversions: Reading the Bible and Writing the Lesbian Subject



in Jeanette Winterson's: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit; Chapter 11 "All Men Are Divine": Religious Mystery and Homosexual Identity in Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The second edition of Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture continues the groundbreaking work of the original, exploring the territory between gay/lesbian studies, literary criticism, and religious studies. This much-anticipated follow-up examines the appropriation and/or subversion of the authority of the Judeo-Christian Bible by gay and lesbian writers. The book highlights two prevalent trends in gay and lesbian literature?a transgressive approach that challenges the authority of the Bible when used as an instrument of oppression, and an appropriative technique that exp