The gay and lesbian literary heritage : a reader's companion to the writers and their works, from antiquity to the present

The status of gay and lesbian literature - for centuries considered marginal at best and corrupting at worst - has changed dramatically over the last 25 years.

Gay and lesbian studies courses are now common at universities around the world, and the body of gay and lesbian writing continues to grow and to enter the literary mainstream.This volume provides overviews of the gay and lesbian presence in a variety of genres and historical periods, it includes in-depth critical essays on gay and lesbian authors in world literature and coverage of topics and figures important in the varied gay and lesbian literary traditions.