LEADER 04149oam 2200781I 450 001 9910452347303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-203-05718-X 010 $a1-299-46051-8 010 $a1-136-57096-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203057186 035 $a(CKB)2550000001019139 035 $a(EBL)1166581 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000856655 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11438200 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000856655 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10807668 035 $a(PQKB)11308088 035 $a(OCoLC)846971135 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1166581 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1166581 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10684631 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL477301 035 $a(OCoLC)839301765 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001019139 100 $a20180706d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aReclaiming the sacred $ethe Bible in gay and lesbian culture /$fRaymond-Jean Frontain, editor 205 $a2nd ed. 210 1$aNew York ;$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (282 p.) 300 $aFirst published by the Haworth Press, Inc., in 2003. 311 $a1-56023-355-9 311 $a1-56023-354-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aChapter 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 330 $aThe 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 606 $aGays' writings, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHomosexuality and literature$zGreat Britain 606 $aChristianity and literature$zGreat Britain 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHoly, The, in literature 606 $aReligion and literature 606 $aLesbians in literature 606 $aGay men in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGays' writings, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHomosexuality and literature 615 0$aChristianity and literature 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHoly, The, in literature. 615 0$aReligion and literature. 615 0$aLesbians in literature. 615 0$aGay men in literature. 676 $a820.9/920664 701 $aFrontain$b Raymond-Jean$0985627 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452347303321 996 $aReclaiming the sacred$92252929 997 $aUNINA