{"product_id":"the-violet-hour-the-violet-quill-and-the-making-of-gay-culture-paperback","title":"The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Bergman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe members of the literary circle known as the Violet Quill--Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, Edmund White, Christopher Cox, Michael Grumley, Robert Ferro, and George Whitmore--collectively represent the aspirations and the achievement of gay writing during and after the gay liberation movement. David Bergman's social history shows how the works of these authors reflected, advanced, and criticized the values, principles, and prejudices of the culture of gay liberation. In spinning many of the most important stories gay men told of themselves in the short period between the 1969 Stonewall Riots and the devastation of the AIDS epidemic during the 1980s, the Violet Quill exerted an enormous influence on gay culture. The death toll of the AIDS epidemic, including four of the Violet Quill's seven members, has made putting such recent events into a historical context all the more important and difficult. The work of the Violet Quill expresses the joy, suffering, grief, hope, activism, and caregiving of their generation. \u003ci\u003eThe Violet Hour\u003c\/i\u003e meets the urgent need for a history of the men who bore witness not only to the birth but also to the decimation of a culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Bergman is professor of English at Towson University. The editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Violet Quill Reader, \u003c\/i\u003e he has won awards for his collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eCracking the Code, \u003c\/i\u003e his book \u003ci\u003eGaiety Transfigured: Self-Representation in Gay American Literature, \u003c\/i\u003e and for editing the anthology \u003ci\u003eMen on Men 2000.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9.02 x 6.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 05, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47454389403826,"sku":"9780231130516","price":66.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/051f075fe0e5a8c3256624c6cf08a268.webp?v=1778849904","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-violet-hour-the-violet-quill-and-the-making-of-gay-culture-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}