Sex, gender, and sexualities in Edward Albee's plays / edited by John M. Clum, Cormac O'Brien.

• TeilnehmendeR: Clum, John M.; O'Brien, Cormac.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (204 pages).

Sex, Gender, and Sexualities in the Plays of Edward Albee contains a general introduction and eleven essays by American and European Albee scholars on Albee’s depictions of gender relations, sexual relations, monogamy, child-rearing, and homosexuality. The volume includes close readings of individual plays and more general theoretical and historical discussions. Contributors: Henry Albright, Mary Ann Barfield, Araceli Gonzalez Crespan, Andrew Darr, John M. Clum, Paul Grant, Emeline Jouve, T. Ross Leasure, David Marcia, Cormac O’Brien, Donald Pease, Valentine Vasak

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Editors’ Introduction / John M. Clum and Cormac O’Brien -- Dismembering/Remembering: Dramatizing the Family in The American Dream / Emeline Jouve -- The Gay Geography of New York City in Albee’s The Zoo Story / T. Ross Leasure -- Revisiting the Zoo: Time and Gender in Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo / Andrew Darr -- “The Aims of Spirit”: Performing Marriage in Albee’s Plays / David Marcia -- Collateral Damage: Raising and Destroying [Gay?] Sons in Albee’s Plays / John M. Clum -- A Body of One’s Own: Martha’s Performative Physicality in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? / Mary Ann Barfield -- The Uncrossable Line: Reading Martha as Transgender in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? / Henry Albright -- The Tragic (Male) Hero in the Wake of the New Millennium: Upturning Gender and Sexuality in The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? / Araceli González Crespán -- “Do you want it?” The Commodification of Sexuality in the Late Plays of Edward Albee / Valentine Vasak -- Malcolm, Sexual Politics, Edward Albee’s Adaptations / Donald E. Pease -- “A wet run, so to speak”: Sex and Sexuality in Edward Albee’s Lolita / Paul Benedict Grant.