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Overview"This book builds upon recent theoretical approaches that define queerness as more of a temporal orientation than a sexual one to explore how Edgar Allan Poe's literary works were frequently invested in imagining lives that contemporary readers can understand as queer, as they stray outside of or aggressively reject normative life paths, including heterosexual romance, marriage, and reproduction, and emphasize individuals' present desires over future plans. The book's analysis of many of Poe's best-known works, including ""The Raven,"" ""The Fall of the House of Usher,"" ""The Black Cat,"" ""The Masque of the Red Death,"" and ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue,"" show that his attraction to the liberation of queerness is accompanied by demonstrations of extreme anxiety about the potentially terrifying consequences of non-normative choices. While Poe never resolved the conflicts in his thinking, this book argues that this compelling imaginative tension between queerness and temporal normativity is crucial to understanding his canon." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paul Christian JonesPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2022 Weight: 0.416kg ISBN: 9783030970826ISBN 10: 3030970825 Pages: 207 Publication Date: 17 May 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1 Introduction: Poe, Time, and Queerness2 Resisting Reproduction in Poe’s Family Fictions: “Morella,” “Ligeia” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”3 “My Evil Destiny”: The Queer Childhood and Queer Adulthood of William Wilson4 Queer Spaces in “The Masque of the Red Death” and the Dupin Mysteries5 “Nevermore!”: Non-Normative Desire and Queer Temporality in “The Black Cat” and “The Raven” 6 Epilogue: Poe’s Queer Afterlife: Revisiting “The Masque of the Red Death” in the AIDS EraReviewsAuthor InformationPaul Christian Jones is Professor of English at Ohio University, USA, and the author of two books, Unwelcome Voices: Subversive Fiction in the Antebellum South (2005) and Against the Gallows: Antebellum American Writers and the Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment (2011). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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