Feeling Backward - Loss and the Politics of Queer History

Informationen zum Autor Heather Love is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Klappentext Love weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and gay-themed media brings clear benefits, assimilation entails losses hard to identify or mourn, since many aspects of historical gay culture are so closely associated with the pain and shame of the closet. Zusammenfassung Love weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and gay-themed media brings clear benefits! assimilation entails losses hard to identify or mourn! since many aspects of historical gay culture are so closely associated with the pain and shame of the closet. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Emotional Rescue 2. Permanent Exile: Walter Pater's Queer Modernism 3. The End of Friendship: Willa Cather's Sad Kindred 4. Unwanted Being: Stephen Gordon's Spoiled Identity 5. Impossible Objects: Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Longing for Revolution Epilogue: The Politics of Refusal Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Heather Love, Love Heather
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2009
• EAN: 9780674032392
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03239-2
• No. of pages: 206
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 233 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Gay & Lesbian studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics