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Gordon Merrick and the Great Gay American Novel
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2022
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Gordon Merrick and the Great Gay American Novel is the first biography of Gordon Merrick, the most commercially successful writer of gay novels in the twentieth century. This book shows how Merrick’s novels were largely based on his own life and time as a Princeton theater star, a Broadway actor, a New York reporter, an OSS spy, and the friend of countless artists and celebrities as an expatriate in France, Greece, and Sri Lanka. He lived much of his life as an openly gay man with his longtime partner, Charles Hulse. His 1970 novel, The Lord Won’t Mind, broke new ground by showing that an affirming, explicitly gay novel could be a bestseller. His subsequent gay novels were both a cultural phenomenon and a lightning rod for literary critics. This book also examines the complex, often conflicting responses to Merrick’s novels by gay readers and critics, and it thus recovers the early post-Stonewall debates over the definition of “gay literature.” By reconstructing Merrick’s life and critical fortunes, this book expands our understanding of what it means to be a gay man in the twentieth century.
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2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-3564-8
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978-1-7936-3565-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
360
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List of Figures No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
An American Dynasty No access Pages 11 - 26
Et Ego in Arcadia: Princeton No access Pages 27 - 48
The Great White Way No access Pages 49 - 70
The Spy No access Pages 71 - 86
The Postwar Novelist No access Pages 87 - 100
Connecting with Forster No access Pages 101 - 116
The Protest Novelist No access Pages 117 - 132
The Dancer from San Francisco No access Pages 133 - 150
The Island of Dreams No access Pages 151 - 166
The Great Gay American Novel No access Pages 167 - 188
Getting It Published No access Pages 189 - 200
The Irene Rockwood Phenomenon No access Pages 201 - 216
Going Greek, or Making a Gay Mythology No access Pages 217 - 238
A Return to the Stage No access Pages 239 - 254
Adventures in the East No access Pages 255 - 270
