See / Looby / North Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8700-0
Verlag: Fordham University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm

Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies collects in two parts the scholarly work—both published and unpublished—that Sam See had completed as of his death in 2013.

In Part I, in a thorough reading of Darwin, See argues that nature is constantly and aimlessly variable, and that nature itself might be considered queer. In Part II, See proposes that, understood as queer in this way, nature might be made the foundational myth for the building of queer communities.

With essays by Scott Herring, Heather Love, and Wendy Moffat.

Autoren/Hrsg.

See, Sam

Looby, Christopher

North, Michael

Weitere Mitwirkende

Love, Heather

Moffat, Wendy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction | 1

Part I: Queer Natures

Charles Darwin, Queer Theorist | 11

The Comedy of Nature: Darwinian Feminism
in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts | 50

Art for Science’s Sake: Wilde in Whitman’s Wilderness | 90

Exfoliating Modernist Realism: Carpenter,
Darwin, and Forster | 97

“Spectacles in Color”: The Primitive Drag
of Langston Hughes | 106

Epilogue: The Myth of Nature | 134

Part II: Queer Mythologies

Fast Books Read Slow: The Shapes of Speed
in Manhattan Transfer and The Sun Also Rises | 159

Making Modernism New: Queer Mythology
in The Young and Evil | 194

American Failurism: Hart Crane’s The Bridge and Kenneth
Burke’s Paradox of Purity | 229

The Cruelty of Breeding: Queer Time in The Waste Land | 258

Essays

The Ancients and the Queer Moderns
Scott Herring | 271

Contrary / Sexual / Feeling
Heather Love | 288

Late Sam See
Wendy Moffat | 300

Acknowledgments | 309

List of Contributors | 311

Index | 313

Über Autor(innen)

Looby, Christopher
Christopher Looby is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Love, Heather
Heather K. Love is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard University Press, 2007). She has edited and co-edited special issues of Representations (“Description Across Disciplines,” with Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus, 2016), GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (on the work of anthropologist Gayle Rubin, 2010), and New Literary History (“Is There Life after Identity Politics?,” 2000). She received her A.B. in Literature from Harvard University and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Virginia.

North, Michael
Michael North is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

See, Sam
Sam See was a scholar of Modernist literature and sexuality studies and Assistant Professor of English at Yale University.

Moffat, Wendy
Wendy Moffat is Professor of English at Dickinson College, where she holds the Curley Chair in Global Education. She is the author of A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), which received the Biographer’s Club Prize in 2010 and was runner-up for the PEN Biography Prize in 2011. Her forthcoming book, Wounded Minds (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), recounts the psychic cost of WWI through the stories of two Americans who risked their lives in France: psychiatrist Thomas Salmon, who brought treatment directly to the battlefield, and journalist Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, who was nearly killed covering the Marne battles for The New Republic. She received her Ph.D. in English from Yale University.

Sam See (Author)

Sam See was a scholar of Modernist literature and sexuality studies and Assistant Professor of English at Yale University.


Christopher Looby (Edited By)

Christopher Looby is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.


Michael North (Edited By)

Michael North is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.