04164oam 2200781I 450 991077968780332120231214145403.00-203-05718-X1-299-46051-81-136-57096-910.4324/9780203057186(CKB)2550000001019139(EBL)1166581(SSID)ssj0000856655(PQKBManifestationID)11438200(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000856655(PQKBWorkID)10807668(PQKB)11308088(OCoLC)846971135(MiAaPQ)EBC1166581(Au-PeEL)EBL1166581(CaPaEBR)ebr10684631(CaONFJC)MIL477301(OCoLC)839301765(FINmELB)ELB135409(EXLCZ)99255000000101913920180706d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReclaiming the sacred the Bible in gay and lesbian culture /Raymond-Jean Frontain, editor2nd ed.New York ;London :Routledge,2011.1 online resource (282 p.)First published by the Haworth Press, Inc., in 2003.1-56023-355-9 1-56023-354-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 LiteratureChapter 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; IndexThe 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 expGay people's writings, EnglishHistory and criticismHomosexuality and literatureGreat BritainChristianity and literatureGreat BritainEnglish literatureHistory and criticismHoly, The, in literatureReligion and literatureLesbians in literatureGay men in literatureGay people's writings, EnglishHistory and criticism.Homosexuality and literatureChristianity and literatureEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Holy, The, in literature.Religion and literature.Lesbians in literature.Gay men in literature.820.9/920664Frontain Raymond-Jean1553200MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779687803321Reclaiming the sacred3813564UNINA