3 new books on remarkable men in our library!
Ralf Webb's book "Strange Relations - Masculinity, Sexuality & Art in Mid-Century America" reads 4 bisexual #AmericanWriters (#TennesseeWilliams, #CarsonMcCullers, #Cheever & #Baldwin) with #WaltWhitman

#AmericanStudies #MasculinityStudies #QueerStudies

Andrew Stauffer's #biography of #LordByron is subtitled "A Life in 10 Letters", using #Byron's own letters, his own voice, as starting points & leitmotifs to reconstruct the #RomanticWriter 's feelings & events of his turbulent life

#Romanticism #EnglishLiterature

"feeling singular" by Ben Bascom looks at #queer #Masculinities in the #history of the early United States - a #QueerStudies approach to the #biographies of 5 unique but lesser-studied individuals at odds w traditional masculinity

#AmericanStudies #AmericanHistory #MasculinityStudies #LifeWriting

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