Gordon Merrick and the Great Gay American Novel

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvJoseph M. Ortiz

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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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Utgivningsdatum2023-11-15
Mått151 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt517 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor374
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793635662

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List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Autobiography of a Gay ReaderChapter One: An American DynastyChapter Two: Et Ego In Arcadia: PrincetonChapter Three: The Great White WayChapter Four: The SpyChapter Five: The Postwar NovelistChapter Six: Connecting with ForsterChapter Seven: The Protest NovelistChapter Eight: The Dancer from San FranciscoChapter Nine: The Island of DreamsChapter Ten: The Great Gay American NovelChapter Eleven: Getting It PublishedChapter Twelve: The Irene Rockwood PhenomenonChapter Thirteen: Going Greek, or Making a Gay MythologyChapter Fourteen: A Return to the StageChapter Fifteen: Adventures in the EastChapter Sixteen: Rewriting the PastChapter Seventeen: Merrick vs. KramerChapter Eighteen: Imperfect FreedomAfterword: Gay Literary CanonsBibliographyAbout the AuthorIndex

Joseph Ortiz’s book about Gordon Merrick is a meticulously researched and beautifully written biography. Merrick was a Broadway actor who spent time in OSS during World War II before becoming one of America’s earliest and most successful gay novelists. This is not only a rich portrait of an important and previously neglected cultural figure: it is also a terrific social history spanning fifty years of the 20th Century. Anyone curious about the gay culture that flourished in the decades before Stonewall will have a wonderful time reading this book.

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