Robert Hodges

Robert R. Hodges is a professor emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at California State University, Fullerton.[1]

Hodges earned a master's degree from the University of Missouri in 1954, with a thesis on Narrative technique in the novels of Willa Cather.[2] He became an authority on the life and oeuvre of Joseph Conrad, the subject of his 1960 doctoral dissertation at Stanford University,[3] which he later published as a book.[4] He observed for instance in "Deep Fellowship" (Journal of Homosexuality, 1979) the multifarious homoerotic elements in Conrad's work, and seeking thus to challenge the entrenched and enforced view of Conrad as a "heterosexual man's writer", an "established man's man of letters", "a literary heterosexual role model" and a "guardian of society's male mystique".[5]

He was an activist in the gay rights movement of the 1970s and 1980s,[1] and was editor-in-chief of the Newsletter of the Western Gay Academic Union.[6]

References

  • Hodges, Robert R. "Deep Fellowship: Homosexuality and Male Bonding in the Life and Fiction of Joseph Conrad." Journal of Homosexuality, 1979: 379–393.
  • —. The dual heritage of Joseph Conrad. The Hague: Mouton, 1967.[4]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Guide to the Robert R. Hodges Papers. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
  2. ↑ "Narrative technique in the novels of Willa Cather", WorldCat catalog entry, retrieved 2018-08-04
  3. ↑ "Joseph Conrad's dual heritage", WorldCat catalog entry, retrieved 2018-08-04
  4. 1 2 Reviews of The dual heritage of Joseph Conrad:
    • Espey, John (December 1967), Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 22 (3): 311, doi:10.2307/2932447
    • Busza, Andrew (January 1968), "Review", English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 11 (4): 222–226
    • Sherry, Norman (1971), The Yearbook of English Studies, 1: 323–324, doi:10.2307/3507152
  5. ↑ Hodges 1979
  6. ↑ "Newsletter of the Western Gay Academic Union", WorldCat catalog entry, retrieved 2018-08-04
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