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Page 101
... homosexual Starwick - but the point , of course , is that it takes him a very long time to realize that Starwick is homosexual - and with the two Boston women , Elinor and Ann , whom he sponges on and who , emotionally , sponge on him ...
... homosexual Starwick - but the point , of course , is that it takes him a very long time to realize that Starwick is homosexual - and with the two Boston women , Elinor and Ann , whom he sponges on and who , emotionally , sponge on him ...
Page 271
... homosexual tendencies within him and so becomes vulnerable as never before to the machinations of his enemies . His end is tragic , with , it seems , his life's work undone . As its title , with its ironic reference to the death of ...
... homosexual tendencies within him and so becomes vulnerable as never before to the machinations of his enemies . His end is tragic , with , it seems , his life's work undone . As its title , with its ironic reference to the death of ...
Page 299
... homosexual encounter to homosexual encounter , is buoyed up throughout by the memory of his adolescent love for his friend Bod Ford . Heterosexual love is seen as ' devouring ' , again a common view of it in American fiction , where ...
... homosexual encounter to homosexual encounter , is buoyed up throughout by the memory of his adolescent love for his friend Bod Ford . Heterosexual love is seen as ' devouring ' , again a common view of it in American fiction , where ...
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British I | 11 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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