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Imperial desire : dissident sexualities and colonial literature / Philip Holden and Richard J. Ruppel, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colonies in literature.
- Desire in literature.
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Homosexuality and literature--Great Britain--Colonies.
- Homosexuality and literature.
- Homosexuality and literature--Great Britain.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Queer theory.
- LGBTQ+ literature.
- LGBTQ+ literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (362 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An exploration of the intersection of colonialism and homosexuality in fiction and travel writing, this volume brings together two dynamic fields of academic inquiry: colonial discourse analysis and queer theory.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Philip Holden and Richard J. Ruppel
- The sublimation of desire to apocalyptic passion in Defoe's Crusoe trilogy / Hans Turley
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Sapphic vision / John Beynon
- The guise of friendship / Terry Goldie
- Lingering pleasures, perverted texts : colonial desire in Kipling's Anglo-India / Anjali Arondekar
- Fantasies of "lady pioneers," between narrative and theory / Christopher Lane
- Redressing the Empire : Anthony Trollope and British gender anxiety on "The banks of the Jordan" / Mark Forrester
- From mimicry to menace : Conrad and late Victorian masculinity / Tim Middleton
- Girl! What? Did I mention a girl? : the economy of desire in Heart of darkness / Richard J. Ruppel
- Homoerotic heroics, domestic discipline: Conrad and Ford's romance / Sarah Cole
- Only cathect : queer heirs and narrative desires in Howards End / Lois Cucullu
- Unarm, Eros! : adventure, homoeroticism, and divine order in Prester John / Maria Davidis
- Many lips will I kiss : the queer foreplay of "the east" in Russian aestheticism / Dennis Denisoff
- Sex/race wars on the frontier : homosexuality and colonialism in The golden notebook / Joseph A. Boone
- Coda : rethinking colonial discourse analysis and queer studies / Philip Holden.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9260-2
- OCLC:
- 191935380
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