Unlike much of the scholarship that has reexamined issues of gender and sexuality in the Restoration and eighteenth century, this book is not concerned with tracing the emergence of a proto-modern "homosexual" identity. In The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire, the central question is: Why did so many eighteenth-century writers represent the sodomite at all? What purposes did these representations serve? Charting the emergence of the sodomite as a social...

Examines the prose and poetry of the noted Irish author and reviews various interpretations of his works.

Landmark study of World War I, describing its effects on the nation

A collection of ten critical essays on the Prologue to Chaucer's well-known work, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.

Lesbian writers include some of the most innovative and adventurous writers of this century, but only recently have they been given their due attention in terms of critical study. This book is the first anthology to discuss the subject of lesbianism as it relates to the critical interaction among readers, writers, and literary critics. It explores lesbian texts in terms of identification, meaning, and interpretation, and examines the complex entanglements...

Provides in-depth background and interpretation of the American Revolution, with short biographies of people relevant to the topics discussed in each chapter.