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Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies collects in two parts the scholarly work-both published and unpublished-that Sam See had completed as of his death in 2013.
In Part I, in a thorough reading of Darwin, See argues that nature is constantly and aimlessly variable, and that nature itself might be considered queer. In Part II, See proposes that, understood as queer in this way, nature might be made the foundational myth for the building of queer communities.
With essays by Scott Herring, Heather Love, and Wendy Moffat.
List of contents
Introduction | 1
Part I: Queer NaturesCharles Darwin, Queer Theorist | 11
The Comedy of Nature: Darwinian Feminism
in Virginia Woolf's
Between the Acts | 50
Art for Science's Sake: Wilde in Whitman's Wilderness | 90
Exfoliating Modernist Realism: Carpenter,
Darwin, and Forster | 97
"Spectacles in Color": The Primitive Drag
of Langston Hughes | 106
Epilogue: The Myth of Nature | 134
Part II: Queer MythologiesFast Books Read Slow: The Shapes of Speed
in
Manhattan Transfer and The Sun Also Rises | 159
Making Modernism New: Queer Mythology
in
The Young and Evil | 194
American Failurism: Hart Crane's
The Bridge and Kenneth
Burke's Paradox of Purity | 229
The Cruelty of Breeding: Queer Time in
The Waste Land | 258
EssaysThe Ancients and the Queer Moderns
Scott Herring | 271
Contrary / Sexual / Feeling
Heather Love | 288
Late Sam See
Wendy Moffat | 300
Acknowledgments | 309
List of Contributors | 311
Index | 313
About the author
Sam See (Author) Sam See was a scholar of Modernist literature and sexuality studies and Assistant Professor of English at Yale University.
Christopher Looby (Edited By) Christopher Looby is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Michael North (Edited By) Michael North is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
