- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; New edition edition (5 Jun 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0816638276
- ISBN-13: 978-0816638277
- Product Dimensions: 2.2 x 1.3 x 0.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,355,180 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Henry Abelove is an innovative literary critic, astute historian, and pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. In this long-awaited collection, which includes a new introduction, two new essays, and four of the most influential of his previously published articles, Abelove offers strikingly original and boldly interdisciplinary views on the connections between politics, culture, and sexuality in settings that range from eighteenth-century England to contemporary Salt Lake City and in figures as diverse as Henry David Thoreau, Sigmund Freud, and Frank O'Hara.
Abelove addresses the willful misreading of Freud's views on homosexuality among American psychoanalysts; reconsiders sexual practice during England's long eighteenth century; assesses the contemporary relevance of Thoreau's Walden, particularly to queer politics; and traces the emergence of a distinctly queer critique of previous approaches to lesbian and gay history. In the first of the new essays, Abelove uncovers the origins and founding assumptions of American studies as a scholarly discipline; the second evaluates the impact of literature-specifically the same-sex eroticism found in works by such writers as James Baldwin, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Bowles, and Ned Rorem-on the gay liberation movement of the 1970s.
Provocatively conceived, persuasively argued, and elegantly composed, the essays gathered in Deep Gossip confirm Henry Abelove's reputation as one of America's leading thinkers on the cultural politics of sexuality.
Henry Abelove is the Willbur Fisk Osborne Professor of English and director of the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University. He is author of The Evangelist of Desire: John Wesley and the Methodists (1990) and coeditor (with Michèle Aina Barale and David M. Halperin) of The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (1993). --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Subversively accessible queer thought
23 July 2004
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Abelove considers topics as various as Freud, the eighteenth century, Elizabeth Bishop, Thoreau, queer students, and American Studies founder F.O. Mathiessen. But these essays are not a miscellany. They are the culmination of a careful mind's work of two decades, and model a method for queering history and culture that simply does without the polemics or technical jargon that typically characterize such projects. It is a book that repays careful reading, one that is short enough to be realistically re-read, and one clear and self-contained enough to be read without reference to a mountain of other academic texts.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A moving, invigorating, and delightful read
26 Dec 2003
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The slightness of Abelove's volume of essays belies the breadth of its reach and the enormous generosity of its insights, curiosities, and concerns. Some of the essays are, simply put, transformative--that on Freud makes us reconceptualize the founder of psychoanalysis, whose views on human sexuality turn out to differ notoriously from those, especially American, analysts who would claim to follow in his path. The essay on Thoreau similarly recovers this writer from a dominant (and domineering) tradition of domestication. Everywhere in his beautifully plain-spoken writing--whether it is on the demographics of 18th-century England or the critical reception of American Studies pioneer F.O. Mathiessen--Abelove quietly, gracefully, and compellingly overturns the received accounts we have of some of the crucial institutions and figures in the history of modern thought and culture. In addition to offering a richly rewarding entree into the history of sexuality, Abelove's work might best be seen as contributing mightily to a revisionist archeology of those common-sense assumptions that underwrite what we all take to be fundamental certainties and self-evident truths.
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