Queer Kinship After Wilde - Transnational Decadence and the Family

Informationen zum Autor Kristin Mahoney is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Gender in a Global Context at Michigan State University. Her first book, Literature and the Politics of Post-Victorian Decadence, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. Klappentext This book draws on archival materials, such as diaries, correspondence, and photo albums, to tell the stories of queer subjects who engaged in translation, travel, and transnational collaboration as they generated new ways of approaching kinship. Vorwort Focuses on figures who saw themselves as part of a Decadent tradition as they revised the concept of the family in the early 20th century. Zusammenfassung This book draws on archival materials, such as diaries, correspondence, and photo albums, to tell the stories of queer subjects who engaged in translation, travel, and transnational collaboration as they generated new ways of approaching kinship. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Queering Kinship/Kinship as Queer Politics: 1. The son of Oscar Wilde: Cosmopolitanism and textual kinship; 2. "Out and out from the family to the community": The Housmans and the politics of queer sibling devotion; Part II. Queer retreat and cosmopolitan community: 3. An extraordinary marriage: The Mackenzies and the queer cosmopolitanism of Capri; 4. Bachelorhood and transnational adoption: Harold Acton in China; Part III. Decadent Modernism and Eroticized Kinship: 5. Richard Bruce Nugent's 'Geisha Man': Harlem decadence, multiraciality, and incest fantasy; 6. Hallowed incest: Eric Gill, Indian aesthetics, and queer Catholicism.

Product details

• Authors: Kristin Mahoney, Kristin (Michigan State University) Mahoney, Mahoney Kristin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2022
• EAN: 9781316519912
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51991-2
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies, gender groups, Gay & Lesbian studies, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics