Circulating queerness : before the gay and lesbian novel / Natasha Hurley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hurley, Natasha, author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Homosexuality in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 320 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Challenging the narrative that the gay and lesbian novel came into view in response to the emergence of homosexuality as a concept, Natasha Hurley posits a much longer history of this novelistic genre. She revises our understanding of the history of sexuality, as well as of the processes of producing new concepts and the evolution of new categories of language"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Prologue: On the Queer Worlds of Books

Introduction: Circuits, Lies, and the Queer Novel in America

Acquired Queerness: The Sexual Life and Afterlife of Typee

The Stoddard Archive and Its Dissed Contents

Type Complication and Literary Old Maids

Reading The Bostonians's History of Sexuality from the Outside In

Worlds Inside: Afterlives of Nineteenth-Century Types

Coda: Short Circuits and Untrodden Paths.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Hurley, Natasha author. Circulating queerness.

ISBN:

9781517900342

1517900344

9781517900359

1517900352

OCLC:

1007307170