Queer Dickens

Released on by Holly Furneaux
preview-18

  • Queer Dickens Book Detail

  • Author : Holly Furneaux
  • Release Date : 2009-12-10
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 304
  • ISBN 13 : 0191609927
  • File Size : 62,62 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Queer Dickens by Holly Furneaux PDF Summary

Book Description: This book offers a radically new reading of Dickens and his major works. It demonstrates that, rather than representing a largely conventional, conservative view of sexuality and gender, he presents a distinctly queer corpus, everywhere fascinated by the diversity of gender roles, the expandability of notions of the family, and the complex multiplicity of sexual desire. The book examines the long overlooked figures of bachelor fathers, maritally resistant men, and male nurses. It explores Dickens's attention to a longing, not to reproduce, but to nurture, his interest in healing touch, and his articulation, over the course of his career, of homoerotic desire. Holly Furneaux places Dickens's writing in a broad literary and social context, alongside authors including Bulwer-Lytton, Tennyson, Braddon, Collins, and Whitman, to make a case for Dickens's central position in queer literary history. Examining novels, poetry, life-writing, journalism, and legal and political debates, Queer Dickens argues that this eminent Victorian can direct us to the ways in which his culture could, and did, comfortably accommodate homoeroticism and families of choice. Further, it contends that Dickens's portrayals of nurturing masculinity and his concern with touch and affect between men challenge what we have been used to thinking about Victorian ideals of maleness. Queer Dickens intervenes in current debates about the Victorians (neither so punitive nor so prudish as we once imagined) and about the methodologies of the histories of the family and of sexuality. It makes the case for a more optimistic, nurturing, and life-affirming trajectory in queer theory.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Queer Dickens books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Queer Dickens

Queer Dickens

File Size : 23,23 MB
Total View : 7450 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book offers a radically new reading of Dickens and his major works. It demonstrates that, rather than representing a largely conventional, conservative vie

Military Men of Feeling

Military Men of Feeling

File Size : 68,68 MB
Total View : 855 Views
DOWNLOAD

Military Men of Feeling considers the popularity of the figure of the gentle soldier in the Victorian period. It traces a persistent narrative swerve from tales

Working-Class Raj

Working-Class Raj

File Size : 35,35 MB
Total View : 2636 Views
DOWNLOAD

Explores what happened to working-class men and women when they left Britain and travelled to India after the Rebellion of 1857.

Adaptation in Visual Culture

Adaptation in Visual Culture

File Size : 27,27 MB
Total View : 7799 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book gathers together essays written by leading scholars of adaptation studies to explore the full range of practices and issues currently of concern in th