Download or read book Lovers and Beloveds written by Gary Richards and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A challenge to traditional criticism, this study demonstrates that issues of sexuality - and same-sex desire in particular - were of central importance in the literary production of the Southern Renaissance. Gary Richards draws on contemporary theories of sexuality in reading the fiction of six writers of the era.