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In this provocative analysis of Whitman's exemplary quest for happiness, Vivian Pollak skillfully explores the intimate relationships that contributed to his portrayal of masculinity in crisis. She maintains that in representing himself as a characteristic nineteenth-century American and in proposing to heal national ills, Whitman was trying to temper his own inner conflicts as well.

Erotic poetry, American - History and criticism. --- Homosexuality and literature. --- Homosexuality, Male, in literature. --- Male homosexuality in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Whitman, Walt,-- 1819-1892-- Criticism and interpr. --- Homosexuality and literature --- Erotic poetry, American --- Male homosexuality, in literature --- Sexual orientation in literature --- Sex in literature --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Homosexuality, Male, in literature --- American erotic poetry --- American poetry --- Literature and homosexuality --- Literature --- History --- History and criticism --- Sexual orientation in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Whitman, Walt, --- Views on sexual orientation.

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This collection of essays brings together scholars from a wide range of critical approaches to study T. S. Eliot's engagement with desire, homoeroticism and early twentieth-century feminism in his poetry, prose and drama. Ranging from historical and formalist literary criticism to psychological and psychoanalytic theory and cultural studies, Gender, Desire and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot illuminates such topics as the influence of Eliot's mother - a poet and social reformer - on his art; the aesthetic function of physical desire; the dynamic of homosexuality in his poetry and prose; and his identification with passive or 'feminine' desire in his poetry and drama. The book also charts his reception by female critics from the early twentieth century to the present. This book should be essential reading for students of Eliot and Modernism, as well as queer theory and gender studies.

Homosexuality and literature --- Feminism and literature --- Erotic poetry, American --- Sexual orientation in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Desire in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- American erotic poetry --- American poetry --- Literature and homosexuality --- Literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- Eliot, T. S. --- Eliot, Thomas Stearns --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ai-lüeh-tʻe, --- Īliyūt, T. S., --- Elliŏtʻŭ, --- Eliot, Thōmas S., --- Eliot, Th. S., --- Eliot, Thomas Stern, --- Elyoṭ, T. S., --- Ėliot, Tomas Stirns, --- אליוט ט.ס --- אליוט, ת. ס. --- Arts and Humanities