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Queer natures, queer mythologies / by Sam See ; edited by Christopher Looby and Michael North ; with essays by Scott Herring, Heather Love, and Wendy Moffatt. [electronic resource]

By: See, S. (Sam), -2013 [author.].
Contributor(s): Looby, C., (Christopher) [editor.] | North, M., (Michael), 1951- [editor.].
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, [Oxford University Press] 2020Edition: First edition.Content type: text Media type: ISBN: 9780823288830.Subject(s): Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | Modernism (Literature) | Homosexuality and literature | Literary Theory | Cultural StudiesDDC classification: 809.9112 Online resources: https://academic.oup.com/book/31278 Click here
Contents:
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: 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 It includes essays that have been previously published in leading journals as well as materials that remained unpublished.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. Provided by publisher.
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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. Provided by publisher.

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