Modernist Art of Queer Survival

List of contents

• Series Editor Foreword


• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Henry James's Animal Encounters


• Chapter 2: Oscar Wilde's Messy Messianism


• Chapter 3: Forster's Queer Invitation


• Chapter 4: The Invitation's Success


• Chapter 5: Cather's Survival By Suicide


• Coda

About the author

Benjamin Bateman is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, where he teaches modern and contemporary literature and gender and sexuality studies. He previously taught and served as the director of The Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities at California State University, Los Angeles.

Summary

Drawing on a critical framework informed by queer theory and psychoanalysis, The Modernist Art of Queer Survival offers a new definition of survival, one that means more than merely the continuation of life. This book creates a literary archive of counterarguments to the conventional Darwinian evolutionary protocols of survival in early 20th century thought.

Additional text

Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Bateman, Benjamin (Lecturer in English Literature Bateman
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.11.2017
• EAN: 9780190676537
• ISBN: 978-0-19-067653-7
• No. of pages: 174
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 241 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Modernist Literature and Culture; Modernist Literature and Cultu
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies