<![CDATA[The Book Company: New Products - LGBT]]> https://www.thebookco.com Sat, 07 Nov 2026 08:25:24 +0000 <![CDATA[Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature (Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/male-to-female-crossdressing-in-early-modern-english-literature-9781138951211 Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:07:13 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/male-to-female-crossdressing-in-early-modern-english-literature-9781138951211 Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature (Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations) by Simone Chess, 9781138951211

This book examines male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry. Chess argues that MTF crossdressing episodes are rich sources for socially-oriented readings of queer gender—that crossdressers’ genders are constructed and represented in relation to romantic..

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]]> Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature (Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations) by Simone Chess, 9781138951211

This book examines male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry. Chess argues that MTF crossdressing episodes are rich sources for socially-oriented readings of queer gender—that crossdressers’ genders are constructed and represented in relation to romantic..

Price: $233.99

]]> This book examines male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry. Chess argues that MTF crossdressing episodes are rich sources for socially-oriented readings of queer gender—that crossdressers’ genders are constructed and represented in relation to romantic..]]> <![CDATA[The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics (Queer Economies of Dirt, Dust and Patina)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/the-dark-side-of-camp-aesthetics-9780415790789 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 21:33:19 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/the-dark-side-of-camp-aesthetics-9780415790789 The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics (Queer Economies of Dirt, Dust and Patina) by Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Franziska Bergmann, Georg Vogt, 9780415790789

This book explores how camp challenges and at the same time celebrates a foundational cultural division, that between the dirty and the clean. In refocusing camp as a phenomenon of the dark underside as much as of the glamorous surface, the collection hopes to add to our understanding of the cu..

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]]> The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics (Queer Economies of Dirt, Dust and Patina) by Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Franziska Bergmann, Georg Vogt, 9780415790789

This book explores how camp challenges and at the same time celebrates a foundational cultural division, that between the dirty and the clean. In refocusing camp as a phenomenon of the dark underside as much as of the glamorous surface, the collection hopes to add to our understanding of the cu..

Price: $233.99

]]> This book explores how camp challenges and at the same time celebrates a foundational cultural division, that between the dirty and the clean. In refocusing camp as a phenomenon of the dark underside as much as of the glamorous surface, the collection hopes to add to our understanding of the cu..]]> <![CDATA[Queer Rebels (Rewriting Literary Traditions in Contemporary Spanish Novels)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/queer-rebels-9781032156453 Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:04:46 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/queer-rebels-9781032156453 Queer Rebels (Rewriting Literary Traditions in Contemporary Spanish Novels) by Łukasz Smuga, Patrycja Poniatowska, 9781032156453This is a study of gay narrative writings published in Spain at the turn of the twentieth century. The book scrutinises the ways in which the literary production of contemporary Spanish gay authors engages with homophobic and homophile discourses, as well as with the vernacular and international l..

Price: $233.99

]]> Queer Rebels (Rewriting Literary Traditions in Contemporary Spanish Novels) by Łukasz Smuga, Patrycja Poniatowska, 9781032156453This is a study of gay narrative writings published in Spain at the turn of the twentieth century. The book scrutinises the ways in which the literary production of contemporary Spanish gay authors engages with homophobic and homophile discourses, as well as with the vernacular and international l..

Price: $233.99

]]> <![CDATA[Literary Theory: The Basics]]> https://www.thebookco.com/literary-theory-the-basics-9781032446912 Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:13:44 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/literary-theory-the-basics-9781032446912 Literary Theory: The Basics by Hans Bertens, 9781032446912

Now in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing world of literary theory. Readers will encounter a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism, queer studies and ecocriticism.

Price: $189.99

]]> Literary Theory: The Basics by Hans Bertens, 9781032446912

Now in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing world of literary theory. Readers will encounter a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism, queer studies and ecocriticism.

Price: $189.99

]]> Now in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing world of literary theory. Readers will encounter a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism, queer studies and ecocriticism.

]]> <![CDATA[Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women's Writing (Uneasy Moderns)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/queering-twentieth-century-irish-womens-writing-9781399547451 Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:49:20 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/queering-twentieth-century-irish-womens-writing-9781399547451 Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women's Writing (Uneasy Moderns) by Naoise Murphy, 9781399547451Bringing together a group of untimely, queerly-oriented writers – Dorothy Macardle, Kate O’Brien, Elizabeth Bowen and Molly Keane – this book unsettles the conventional narratives of modern Irish culture. Despite attempts to impose a linear narrative of progress, feel-good accounts are clearly ina..

Price: $24.95

]]> Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women's Writing (Uneasy Moderns) by Naoise Murphy, 9781399547451Bringing together a group of untimely, queerly-oriented writers – Dorothy Macardle, Kate O’Brien, Elizabeth Bowen and Molly Keane – this book unsettles the conventional narratives of modern Irish culture. Despite attempts to impose a linear narrative of progress, feel-good accounts are clearly ina..

Price: $24.95

]]> <![CDATA[Queer Autobibliography (Acts of Reading and Ways of Belonging)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/queer-autobibliography-9781032909103 Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:11:59 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/queer-autobibliography-9781032909103 Queer Autobibliography (Acts of Reading and Ways of Belonging) by Umasankar Patra, 9781032909103Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of Belonging argues that this negotiation takes place in and through books: books they write, publish, help to publish, read, borrow, lend, gift and learn from. Books and reading become sites as well as strategies to construct their queer p..

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]]> Queer Autobibliography (Acts of Reading and Ways of Belonging) by Umasankar Patra, 9781032909103Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of Belonging argues that this negotiation takes place in and through books: books they write, publish, help to publish, read, borrow, lend, gift and learn from. Books and reading become sites as well as strategies to construct their queer p..

Price: $233.99

]]> argues that this negotiation takes place in and through books: books they write, publish, help to publish, read, borrow, lend, gift and learn from. Books and reading become sites as well as strategies to construct their queer p..]]> <![CDATA[Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women's Writing (Uneasy Moderns)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/queering-twentieth-century-irish-womens-writing-9781399547468 Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:13:15 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/queering-twentieth-century-irish-womens-writing-9781399547468 Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women's Writing (Uneasy Moderns) by Naoise Murphy, 9781399547468Bringing together a group of untimely, queerly-oriented writers – Dorothy Macardle, Kate O’Brien, Elizabeth Bowen and Molly Keane – this book unsettles the conventional narratives of modern Irish culture. Despite attempts to impose a linear narrative of progress, feel-good accounts are clearly ina..

Price: $120.00

]]> Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women's Writing (Uneasy Moderns) by Naoise Murphy, 9781399547468Bringing together a group of untimely, queerly-oriented writers – Dorothy Macardle, Kate O’Brien, Elizabeth Bowen and Molly Keane – this book unsettles the conventional narratives of modern Irish culture. Despite attempts to impose a linear narrative of progress, feel-good accounts are clearly ina..

Price: $120.00

]]> <![CDATA[Queer China (Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/queer-china-9780367819071 Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:14:52 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/queer-china-9780367819071 Queer China (Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism) by Hongwei Bao, 9780367819071

This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examines queer literature and visual cultures in China’s post-Mao and postsocialist era to reveal a queer China in all its ideological complexity and cr..

Price: $233.99

]]> Queer China (Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism) by Hongwei Bao, 9780367819071

This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examines queer literature and visual cultures in China’s post-Mao and postsocialist era to reveal a queer China in all its ideological complexity and cr..

Price: $233.99

]]> This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examines queer literature and visual cultures in China’s post-Mao and postsocialist era to reveal a queer China in all its ideological complexity and cr..]]> <![CDATA[La Cazzaria (The Book of the Prick)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/la-cazzaria-the-book-of-the-prick-9780415940665 Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:54:49 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/la-cazzaria-the-book-of-the-prick-9780415940665 La Cazzaria (The Book of the Prick) by Antonio Vignali, Ian Frederick Moulton, 9780415940665La Cazzaria is the most outspoken erotic text of the Italian Renaissance-a ribald dialogue about politics, sex, and desire. The book is remarkable for its frank discussions of sexuality and explicit homoeroticism-especially when compared to other writings of the period-and for its sophist..

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]]> La Cazzaria (The Book of the Prick) by Antonio Vignali, Ian Frederick Moulton, 9780415940665La Cazzaria is the most outspoken erotic text of the Italian Renaissance-a ribald dialogue about politics, sex, and desire. The book is remarkable for its frank discussions of sexuality and explicit homoeroticism-especially when compared to other writings of the period-and for its sophist..

Price: $233.99

]]> La Cazzaria is the most outspoken erotic text of the Italian Renaissance-a ribald dialogue about politics, sex, and desire. The book is remarkable for its frank discussions of sexuality and explicit homoeroticism-especially when compared to other writings of the period-and for its sophist..]]> <![CDATA[Gender(ed) Identities (Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children's and Young Adult Literature)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/gendered-identities-9781138913035 Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:21:44 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/gendered-identities-9781138913035 Gender(ed) Identities (Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children's and Young Adult Literature) by Tricia Clasen, Holly Hassel, 9781138913035

This diverse, cross-disciplinary volume examines gender construction in children's and YA literature, complementing and updating scholarship on this topic via a rich examination of core questions around gender and sexuality in classic and contemporary texts. Across genres, eras, and national li..

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]]> Gender(ed) Identities (Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children's and Young Adult Literature) by Tricia Clasen, Holly Hassel, 9781138913035

This diverse, cross-disciplinary volume examines gender construction in children's and YA literature, complementing and updating scholarship on this topic via a rich examination of core questions around gender and sexuality in classic and contemporary texts. Across genres, eras, and national li..

Price: $233.99

]]> This diverse, cross-disciplinary volume examines gender construction in children's and YA literature, complementing and updating scholarship on this topic via a rich examination of core questions around gender and sexuality in classic and contemporary texts. Across genres, eras, and national li..]]>