See, S. -2013,
Queer natures, queer mythologies / [electronic resource] by Sam See ; edited by Christopher Looby and Michael North ; with essays by Scott Herring, Heather Love, and Wendy Moffatt. - First edition. - New York : Fordham University Press, [Oxford University Press] 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction
Sam See
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Part I Queer Natures
ExpandCharles Darwin, Queer Theorist: Doing It Naturally
Sam See
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ExpandThe Comedy of Nature: Darwinian Feminism in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
Sam See
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Art for Science’s Sake: Wilde in Whitman’s Wilderness
Sam See
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Exfoliating Modernist Realism: Carpenter, Darwin, and Forster
Sam See
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Expand“Spectacles in Color”: The Primitive Drag of Langston Hughes
Sam See
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Epilogue: The Myth of Nature
Sam See
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Part II Queer Mythologies
ExpandFast Books Read Slow: The Shapes of Speed in: Manhattan Transfer and The Sun Also Rises
Sam See
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ExpandMaking Modernism New: Queer Mythology in The Young and Evil
Sam See
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ExpandAmerican Failurism: Hart Crane’s The Bridge and Kenneth Burke’s Paradox of Purity
Sam See
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The Cruelty of Breeding: Queer Time in The Waste Land
Sam See
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Essays
ExpandThe Ancients and the Queer Moderns
Scott Herring
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Contrary/Sexual/Feeling
Heather Love
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ExpandLate Sam See
Wendy Moffat
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End Matter
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Contributors
Index
About the Authors
Abstract
This book collects the scholarly work that Sam See had completed as of his death in 2013. It includes essays that have been previously published in leading journals as well as materials that remained unpublished. Its parts represent the two book projects that See hoped to complete: Queer Natures: Feeling Degenerate in Literary Modernism and Queer Mythologies: Community and Memory in Modern Literature. The first reinterprets the key term nature, central to so many discussions of literature and sexuality. For See, nature is no longer an unchanging substrate or a philosophical given. Relying on a thorough reading of Darwin, See argues instead that nature is constantly and aimlessly variable. Since it makes room for the aesthetic, by way of what Darwin called sexual selection, nature is also affected by feeling. On these grounds, See argues that nature itself might be considered queer. The second project proposes that, understood as queer in this way, nature might be made the foundational myth for the building of queer communities. See looks at the ways in which queer community has been imagined in literary works from a wide range of authors, and he analyzes the role that literature has played in providing significant aesthetic versions of that community. Locating the various failures of these myths is a way, he hopes, of approaching another, more successful communal story. In addition to his reading of Darwin, See provides new interpretations of modern writers including Langston Hughes, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Hart Crane, and T. S. Eliot.
9780823288830 GBP209.20
https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823286980.001.0001 DOI:
Literature, Modern--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--20th century
Modernism (Literature)
Homosexuality and literature.
Literary Theory, Cultural Studies
809.9112 / SEE/Q
Queer natures, queer mythologies / [electronic resource] by Sam See ; edited by Christopher Looby and Michael North ; with essays by Scott Herring, Heather Love, and Wendy Moffatt. - First edition. - New York : Fordham University Press, [Oxford University Press] 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction
Sam See
View chapter
Part I Queer Natures
ExpandCharles Darwin, Queer Theorist: Doing It Naturally
Sam See
View chapter
ExpandThe Comedy of Nature: Darwinian Feminism in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
Sam See
View chapter
Art for Science’s Sake: Wilde in Whitman’s Wilderness
Sam See
View chapter
Exfoliating Modernist Realism: Carpenter, Darwin, and Forster
Sam See
View chapter
Expand“Spectacles in Color”: The Primitive Drag of Langston Hughes
Sam See
View chapter
Epilogue: The Myth of Nature
Sam See
View chapter
Part II Queer Mythologies
ExpandFast Books Read Slow: The Shapes of Speed in: Manhattan Transfer and The Sun Also Rises
Sam See
View chapter
ExpandMaking Modernism New: Queer Mythology in The Young and Evil
Sam See
View chapter
ExpandAmerican Failurism: Hart Crane’s The Bridge and Kenneth Burke’s Paradox of Purity
Sam See
View chapter
The Cruelty of Breeding: Queer Time in The Waste Land
Sam See
View chapter
Essays
ExpandThe Ancients and the Queer Moderns
Scott Herring
View chapter
Contrary/Sexual/Feeling
Heather Love
View chapter
ExpandLate Sam See
Wendy Moffat
View chapter
End Matter
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Contributors
Index
About the Authors
Abstract
This book collects the scholarly work that Sam See had completed as of his death in 2013. It includes essays that have been previously published in leading journals as well as materials that remained unpublished. Its parts represent the two book projects that See hoped to complete: Queer Natures: Feeling Degenerate in Literary Modernism and Queer Mythologies: Community and Memory in Modern Literature. The first reinterprets the key term nature, central to so many discussions of literature and sexuality. For See, nature is no longer an unchanging substrate or a philosophical given. Relying on a thorough reading of Darwin, See argues instead that nature is constantly and aimlessly variable. Since it makes room for the aesthetic, by way of what Darwin called sexual selection, nature is also affected by feeling. On these grounds, See argues that nature itself might be considered queer. The second project proposes that, understood as queer in this way, nature might be made the foundational myth for the building of queer communities. See looks at the ways in which queer community has been imagined in literary works from a wide range of authors, and he analyzes the role that literature has played in providing significant aesthetic versions of that community. Locating the various failures of these myths is a way, he hopes, of approaching another, more successful communal story. In addition to his reading of Darwin, See provides new interpretations of modern writers including Langston Hughes, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Hart Crane, and T. S. Eliot.
9780823288830 GBP209.20
https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823286980.001.0001 DOI:
Literature, Modern--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--20th century
Modernism (Literature)
Homosexuality and literature.
Literary Theory, Cultural Studies
809.9112 / SEE/Q
