1st Edition
Befriending the Queer Nineteenth Century Curious Attachments
By Michael Borgstrom
Copyright 2021
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
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Befriending the Queer Nineteenth Century: Curious Attachments addresses a longstanding question in literary and cultural studies: how can a case be made for the ongoing value of the humanities without an articulation of that field's social effects? In response, this book examines how readers "befriend" works of literature, overtures that are based in a curiosity about the world that help those... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1: Curiosity, Attachments, Befriending
Chapter 2: Allies: The Lesson of The Hermaphrodite
Chapter 3: Frenemies: The Queer Disaster of Marie St. Clare
Chapter 4: Unfriended: Hating Miles Coverdale
Chapter 5: Befriending an Uncertain Future
Biography
Michael Borgstrom is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University.
