Books by Michael Trask

Reading across the disciplines of the mid-century university, this book uses the subculture of camp to argue that the political shift in postwar America from consensus liberalism to New Left radicalism entailed as many continuities as ruptures.

Modern society, Michael Trask argues in this incisive and original book, chose to couch class difference in terms of illicit sexuality. Trask demonstrates how sexual science's concept of erotic perversion mediated the writing of both literary figures...