The Homosexual in Literature

This sweeping bibliography maps English-language fiction, drama, poetry, and memoirs dealing with male homosexuality from antiquity through the late 1950s, with a special emphasis on precision, chronology, and literary significance. Its strict inclusion rules, clear rating system, and division into "Primary" and "Other Than Primary" entries make it both a scholarly guide and a practical reference, while author and subject indexes help readers trace works by theme, era, or writer. From Byron, Wilde, Douglas, and Prime-Stevenson to Mann, Gide, Proust, Mitchison, Williams, and the Japanese samurai tales, the entries chart desire, secrecy, devotion, scandal, and social danger across cultures and centuries. Later sections broaden into modernist and postwar writing by Hemingway, Coward, Lorca, Genet, Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Paul Bowles, Mary Renault, Rodney Garland, James Baldwin, Peter Wildeblood, Isherwood, McCullers, Capote, Mailer, Sartre, and others. The result is a vivid literary history of forbidden love, coded expression, censorship, self-discovery, and the changing shape of queer life. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.