Classics / Criticism
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A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition
Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality
Are the Lips a Grave?: A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex
Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival
Palatable Poison: Critical Perspectives on the Well of Loneliness
Sappho Is Burning
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Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory: Essays on Abjection in Literature, Mass Culture, and Film
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Letters Between Forster and Isherwood on Homosexuality and Literature
Pornography, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action
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Spivak and Postcolonialism: Exploring Allegations of Textuality
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In Dark Again in Wonder: The Poetry of Ren
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Kinesic Humor: Literature, Embodied Cognition, and the Dynamics of Gesture
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Lost Causes: Narrative, Etiology, and Queer Theory
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The Paris Diary & the New York Diary 1951-1961
Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue
Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities
Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture
Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction
John Cowper Powys and the Afterlife of Romanticism: Re-Imagining William Wordsworth and John Keats
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