Abstract
This essay considers what the gay Englishman signifies in American culture by examining the representation of this figure in two contemporary novels, Gilbert Adair’s Love and Death on Long Island (1990) and Christopher Bram’s Father of Frankenstein (1995), and their critically acclaimed film adaptations, Love and Death on Long Island (1997) and Gods and Monsters (1998). These texts suggest that the gay Englishman is a complex, ambiguous figure who interrogates America’s obsession with effeminacy and its identification of heterosexual masculinity with Americanness (Dyer, 141).
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Genders |
| Issue number | 51 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |