David Foster Wallace's toxic sexuality : hideousness, neoliberalism, spermatics / Edward Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Edward (Professor of literature), author.

Series:

New horizons in contemporary writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wallace, David Foster--Criticism and interpretation.

Wallace, David Foster.

Sex in literature.

Men in literature.

Masculinity in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

220 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Summary:

"David Foster Wallace's Toxic Sexuality: Hideousness, Neoliberalism, Spermatics is the first full-length study of perhaps the most controversial aspect of Wallace's work - male sexuality. Departing from biographical accounts of Wallace's troubled relationship to sex, the book offers new and engaging close readings of this vexed topic in both his fiction and non-fiction. Wallace consistently returns to images of sexual toxicity across his career to argue that, when it comes to sex, men are immutably hideous. He makes this argument by drawing on a variety of neoliberal logics and spermatic metaphors, which in their appeal to apparently neutral economic processes and natural bodily facts, forestall the possibility that men can change. The book therefore provides a revisionist account of Wallace's attitudes towards capitalism, as well as a critical dissection of his approach to masculinity and sexuality. In doing so, David Foster Wallace's Toxic Sexuality shows how Wallace can be considered a neoliberal writer, whose commitment to furthering male sexual toxicity is a disturbing but undeniable part of his literary project"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Responsibility: Investing against pornification

2. Risk: Securitizing male homosexuality

3. Contract: Gazing within masochism

4. Property: Privatizing feminist critique

5. Austerity: Sacrificing and scapegoating little men.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Jackson, Edward, David Foster Wallace's toxic sexuality

ISBN:

9781350117761

1350117765

OCLC:

1131890889