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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 1.570kg ISBN: 9781108843454ISBN 10: 110884345 Pages: 924 Publication Date: 06 June 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Synchronic Histories of American Sexuality; The Sexuality of American History: 1. Transatlantic origin stories: the transmasculinity narrative in the Anglophone Atlantic eighteenth century; 2. Queering the founding; or, the revolution of sex; 3. Whither the queer history of slavery?; 4. Queering immigration and the social body, 1875–1924; 5. The queerness of WWII: problems and possibilities; 6. Queer bonds of Cold War sexuality; 7. 'The Dead Never Die': pre-exposure prophylaxis, queer temporalities, and the literature of AIDS; 8. Fiction in the post-Lawrence v. Texas era, or inventing heteronormative queerness; Queer Literary Movements: 9.Trans-ing transcendentalism; 10. Sentimental literature and the erotics of identification; 11. Queer modernism and misfit identity; 12. Imperialism and the queer Harlem renaissance; 13. The mystical sexuality of the beats and the Berkeley renaissance; 14. The New York school's queer happiness; 15. Chicana and Latina lesbian feminists and the radical making of anthological archives of willfulness; 16. Queer literature after queer theory; Part II: Diachronic Histories of American Sexuality; Queer Genre: 17. Queer historical poetics and queer formalism: American poetry before 1850; 18. Queer mythology in American poetry, 1855–1913; 19. Funny emotions: queer lyric from the new verse to the New American poets; 20. Queer American poetry now; 21. Queer American drama: plays, replays, yet-to-be-plays; 22. The gay genre: musical theatre from Showboat to A Strange Loop; 23. The oneiric golden age of gay and lesbian pulp fiction; 24. Queering desire in American science fiction; 25. Queering comics histories; 26. LGBT bestsellers; 27. History touches us everywhere: American queer and trans memoir in the long twentieth century; Race and the Politics of Queer and Trans Representation: 28. Whiteness and trans genre, whiteness as trans genre; 29. Queer types for early Asian American literature; 30. The queerness of Blackness; 31. Two-spirit writers and the sovereign erotic in queer Native American literature; 32. The insubordination of Latina literature; Space and the Regional Imaginary of Queer Literature: 33. Queer southern literature and the dirty South; 34. Queer diaspoRican circuits; 35.'where sadness makes sense': the queer poetics of the midwest terrain; 36. Queer New England regionalism; 37. Queer beginnings at the end of the frontier: Asia and the Pacific in the making of a modern gay American identity; 38. Queer American literature in the world; Part III: Queer Methods; How to Recognize the Queer Past Before (and During) the Advent of Medicalization: 39. Repression, sublimation, and latency from Charles Brockden Brown to James Purdy; 40. Gender variance before trans: a literary history; 41. Female friendship: romantic friends and Boston marriages; 42. The medical model and early gay and lesbian writing; 43. 'Flung out of Space': class and sexuality in American literary history; 44. Quantifying sex; 45. The pleasures of reading camp; 46. The queerness of religion; 47. Tracing queer crip poetics in time; 48. Queer print culture: the market and circulation of gay and lesbian literature.ReviewsAuthor InformationBenjamin Kahan is the Robert Penn Warren Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Louisiana State University. He has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Reed Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the University of Sydney, the University of Pittsburgh, Emory University, and Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life (2013) and The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality (2019). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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