Befriending the Queer Nineteenth Century

Curious Attachments
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-54231-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

Reihe: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Befriending the Queer Nineteenth Century: Curious Attachments addresses a longstanding question in literary and cultural studies: how can a case be made for the ongoing value of the humanities without an articulation of that field's social effects? In response, this book examines how readers "befriend" works of literature, overtures that are based in a curiosity about the world that help those readers to appreciate the world anew. As an instance of this dynamic, it examines how the contemporary social interest in queerness can be contextualized through encounters with texts produced during an earlier era of queer flux: the U.S. nineteenth century. The book offers first-hand accounts of such meetings, weaving within its analysis reports on readers' engagements with literature and the consequences of those connections. It frames such dynamics as central to a new politics, or to finding a vocabulary for a familiar politics that has not received its due.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Borgstrom, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1: Curiosity, Attachments, Befriending

Chapter 2: Allies: The Lesson of The Hermaphrodite

Chapter 3: Frenemies: The Queer Disaster of Marie St. Clare

Chapter 4: Unfriended: Hating Miles Coverdale

Chapter 5: Befriending an Uncertain Future

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Borgstrom is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University.