Understanding Edmund White

by Nicholas F. Radel

Book Overview

Nicholas F. Radel's Understanding Edmund White, the first book-length critical study of White's work, examines America's best-known gay novelist within the changing social contexts of the past half-century, when gay and lesbian people moved from being seen as psychologically deviant to being increasingly accepted as productive members of society. Radel explores the ways White documents this cultural transition, in both his fiction and his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611171369
• ISBN13: 9781611171365
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"