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Queer environmentality : ecology, evolution, and sexuality in American literature / by Robert Azzarello.
Van Pelt Library PS169.E25 A98 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Azzarello, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Environmentalism in literature.
- Homosexuality in literature.
- Ecology in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 159 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]
- Summary:
- Tracing a queer-environmental lineage in American Romantic and post-Romantic literature, Azzarello (English, Southern U. at New Orleans) brings together the atypically-connected fields of queer studies and environmental studies in order to present a "counter-history" of the aesthetic and political purposes of works by Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, and Djuna Barnes, showing how each problematized conventional notions of relations between the human, the natural, and the sexual and brought out the ways in which the questions and politics of human sexuality are always entwined with the questions and politics of the non-human environment. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Nature and its discontents
- Thoreau's queer environmentality
- Melville's Apples of sodom
- Cather's onto-theology of Oikos
- Barnes's queerly Nietzschean nature
- The philosophical upshot.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781409426646
- 1409426645
- 9781409426653
- 1409426653
- OCLC:
- 760176338
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