Tag Archives: Sexuality
Dream Boy
Jim Grimsley discusses and reads from his novels Dream Boy and Winter Birds. Both works are fictional portraits set in the modern South and explore themes of adolescent love, homosexuality, religion, and personal identity. He addresses his ambivalence toward the South and … Continue reading
(1) The State of the Language, Part 2 of 5; (2) Commentary on Sexuality, “Back to Nature”
Ronald Butters, Margreta de Grazia, Connie Eble, and Michael Montgomery mull over the richness and fluidity of written English in the age of Shakespeare and the King James Bible, before the language moved toward standardization a century later with the … Continue reading
Sexuality, Literature, and Society in Victorian England
Steven Marcus discusses his book The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England, which explores gender and sexuality in the literature of that period. Marcus argues that labeling the Victorian era as “repressive” is an oversimplification. … Continue reading