Befriending the queer nineteenth century : curious attachments / Michael Borgstrom.
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TextSeries: Publisher: London : Routledge, 2020Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781000299625; 1000299627; 9781000299564; 1000299562; 9781000299595; 1000299597; 9780367542320; 0367542323Subject(s): Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910. Hermaphrodite | Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin | Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Blithedale romance | American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 21st century | Gender identity in literature | Queer theory | LITERARY CRITICISM / Gay & Lesbian | LITERARY CRITICISM / American / GeneralDDC classification: 813.30935266 LOC classification: PS374.S72Online resources: Taylor & Francis | OCLC metadata license agreement Summary: 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.
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.
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