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In the Introduction, in explaining in general terms why there is a need for gay studies, I promised to discuss in detail what mainstream critical practice amounted to over issues of homosexuality in literature, so that the move towards a different approach would be understood. I propose to do that now. I shall discuss the issues of censorship, marginalisation, abuse and critical assumptions in modern literary studies, and conclude with an extended example of homophobic writing in the work of Jeffrey Meyers.
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Jeffrey Meyers, Homosexuality and Literature, 1890–1930 ( London: Athlone Press, 1977 ).
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Oliver Bernard, Arthur Rimbaud: Collected Poems (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962) p. xxx.
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Lilly, M. (1993). The Homophobic Academy. In: Gay Men’s Literature in the Twentieth Century. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22966-6_1
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