<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This important book is the first full-scale account of male gay literature across cultures, languages, and centuries. A work of reference as well as the definitive history of a tradition, it traces writing by and about homosexual men from ancient Greece and Rome to the twentieth-century gay literary explosion. <p/>"Woods' own artistry is evident throughout this elegant and startling book. . . . These finely honed gay readings of selected Western (and some Eastern) literary texts richly reward the careful attention they demand. . . . Though grounded in the particulars of gay male identity, this masterpiece of literary (and social) criticism calls across the divides of sex and sexual orientation."--<i>Kirkus Reviews</i> (a starred review) <p/>"An encyclopedic mapping of the intersection between male homosexuality and belles lettres . . . [that is] good reading, in part because Woods has foregone strict chronology to link writers across eras and cultures."--Louis Bayard, <i>Washington</i><i> Post Book World</i> <p/>"Encyclopedic and critical, evenhanded and interpretive, Woods has produced a study that stands as a monument to the progress of gay literary criticism. No one to date has attempted such a grand world-wide history. . . . It cannot be recommended highly enough."--<i>Library Journal</i> (a starred review) <p/>"A bold, intelligent and gorgeously encyclopedic study."--Philip Gambone, <i>Lambda Book Report</i> <p/>"An exemplary piece of work."--Jonathan Bate, <i>The Sunday Telegraph</i>
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