Novel gazing : queer readings in fiction
Offers a collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. This title includes startingly imaginative essays that explore critical practices that can weave the pleasures and disorientations of reading into the fabric of queer analyses.
VI, 518 p. ; 24 cm.
9780822320289, 9780822320401, 0822320282, 0822320401
912273754
Acknowledgments viiParanoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction is About You / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 1Part I. Digital Senses Prophylactics and Brains: Beloved in the Cybernetic Age of AIDS / Kathryn Bond Stockton 41Strange Gourmet: Taste, Waste, Proust / Joseph Litvak 74Outing Texture / Renu Bora 94The "Sinister Fruitiness" of Machines: Neuromancer, Internet Sexuality, and the Turing Test / Tyler Curtain 128Part II. The Affective Life of Capital The Importance of Being Bored: The Dividends of Ennui in The Picture of Dorian Gray / Jeff Nunokawa 151Balzac's Queer Cousins and Their Friends / Michael Lucey 167Part III. Teacher's Pet Defying "Development": Thomas Day's Queer Curriculum in Sandford and Merton / Anne Chandler 201Wizards, Warriors, and the Beast Glatisant in Love / Barry Weller 227Forged in Crisis: Queer Beginnings of Modern Masculinity in a Canonical French Novel / James Creech 249Flogging is Fundamental: Applications of Birch in Swinburne's Lesbia Brandon / John Vincent 269Part IV. Men and Nations Same-Sex Unions in Modern Europe: Daniel Deronda, Altneuland, and the Homoerotics of Jewish Nationalism / Jacob Press 299To Die For / Cindy Patton 330Tearing the Goat's Flesh: Crisis, Homosexuality, Abjection, and the Production of a Late-Twentieth-Century Black Masculinity / Robert F. Reid-Pharr 353Part V. Libidinal Intelligence: Shocks and Recognitions The Autochoreography of an Ex-Snow Queen: Dance, Desire, and the Black Masculine in Melvin Dixon's Vanishing Rooms / Maurice Wallace 379Lip-Reading: Woolf's Secret Encounters / Stephen Barber 401The Female World of Exorcism and Displacement (Or, Relations between Women in Henry James's Nineteenth-Century The Portrait of a Lady) / Melissa Solomon 444Strange Brothers / Jonathan Goldberg 465Bibliography 483Index 501Contributors 517