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The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture (Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies)
David Bergman
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Description for The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture (Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies)
hardcover. This work offers a testament to the writers who spoke for a generation of gay men in the time between the Stonewall Riots and AIDS. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 5SG; DSBH; DSK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.
The members of the literary circle known as the Violet Quill-Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, Edmund White, Christopher Cox, Michael Grumley, Robert Ferro, and George Whitmore-collectively represent the aspirations and the achievement of gay writing during and after the gay liberation movement. David Bergman's social history shows how the works of these authors reflected, advanced, and criticized the values, principles, and prejudices of the culture of gay liberation. In spinning many of the most important stories gay men told of themselves in the short period between the 1969 Stonewall Riots and the devastation of the AIDS epidemic during the 1980s, the ... Read more
The members of the literary circle known as the Violet Quill-Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, Edmund White, Christopher Cox, Michael Grumley, Robert Ferro, and George Whitmore-collectively represent the aspirations and the achievement of gay writing during and after the gay liberation movement. David Bergman's social history shows how the works of these authors reflected, advanced, and criticized the values, principles, and prejudices of the culture of gay liberation. In spinning many of the most important stories gay men told of themselves in the short period between the 1969 Stonewall Riots and the devastation of the AIDS epidemic during the 1980s, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231130509
SKU
V9780231130509
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About David Bergman
David Bergman is professor of English at Towson University. The editor of The Violet Quill Reader, he has won awards for his collection of poems, Cracking the Code, his book Gaiety Transfigured: Self-Representation in Gay American Literature, and for editing the anthology Men on Men 2000.
Reviews for The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture (Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies)
Only a scholarly expert in gay literature and cultural history could produce a book as comprehensive, compelling and informative asThe Violet Hour. Yet Bergman avoids pedantry entirely, making his work as much of a treat to read as any of the best writings of men he is writing about.
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