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 individua...

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.