The Cambridge companion to gay and lesbian literature / edited by Hugh Stevens.

The Cambridge companion to gay and lesbian literature / edited by Hugh Stevens.

9780521888448
0521888441

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

English

xx, 246 pages :bill. ; 24 cm

PN56.H57 C36 2011

809/.8920664

"Literature has always been concerned with questions of kinship, love, marriage, desire, family relationships. The central and privileged stories have tended to assume that desire will be desire between girl and boy. Obstacles are thrown in the way of desire. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1597), the heroine and hero cannot marry because their families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are feuding. The obstacles which stand in the way of same-sex romantic entanglements have been much more encompassing. Before the twentieth century, they have, for the most part, been represented as an impossibility rather than a desirable outcome thwarted by circumstance"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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