Queer Dickens : erotics, families, masculinities / Holly Furneaux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Furneaux, Holly.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation.

Dickens, Charles.

Queer theory.

Gender identity in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. Itexplores Dickens's attention to a longing, not to reproduce, but to nurture, his interest in healing touch, and his

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Telling it Straight: Dickens in a Queer Context; 1 Reconfiguring the Domestic: Bachelor Dads; 2 Serial Bachelorhood and Counter-Marital Plotting; 3 Families of Choice: Homoerotic Intermarriage and Sibling Triangulation; 4 Homotropics: Queer Travels and New Homelands; 5 'It is impossible to be gentler': The Homoerotics of Nursing in Victorian Culture; 6 The Gentle Man's Queer Touch: Reparative Masculinities; Postscript Doing Dickens: The Queer Politics of Adaptation; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N

OP; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-160992-7

0-19-968072-8

9786612383595

1-282-38359-0

0-19-157320-5

OCLC:

536239477