Politics of Love - Queer Heterosexuality in Nineteenth-Century French Literature

Informationen zum Autor MAXIME FOERSTER is an assistant professor of French in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Klappentext "What would love be if heterosexual couples were no longer assigned gender and sexual norms? Maxime Foerster examines the 'heterosexual trouble' between men and women in nineteenth-century French Romantic and Decadent literature. Key works by authors ranging from George Sand to Charles Baudelaire persistently demonstrate that heterosexuality did not work: these authors, and many others, investigated the struggle that men and women alike waged against patriarchal norms. Whereas Romantic fiction dedicated itself to the reinvention of love, Decadence promoted sexual and gender deviance. In ... evaluating the discord afflicting fictional heterosexual couples, male and female dandies, and doctors and their female patients, Foerster shows the crucial role that literature played in the fashioning of alternative identities. A concluding look at Proust's 'áA la recherche du temps perdu' traces the legacy of heterosexual trouble in the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher. Zusammenfassung Convincingly shows how heterosexual couples as depicted in nineteenth-century French literature challenged traditional norms of both gender and sexuality

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• Authors: Maxime Foerster
• Publisher: University press new england
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 22
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781512601701
• ISBN: 978-1-5126-0170-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies; Becoming Modern: New Nineteent; Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies; Becoming Modern: New Nineteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies