Henry James and Queer Filiation

Hardened Bachelors of the Edwardian Era
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-94537-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 111 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 288 g

This study challenges the notion that closeted secrecy was a necessary part of social life for gay men living in the shadow of the trial and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde. It reconstructs a surprisingly open network of queer filiation in which Henry James occupied a central place. The lives of its satellite figures — most now forgotten or unknown — offer even more suggestive evidence of some of the countervailing forms of social practice that could survive even in that hostile era. If these men enjoyed such exemption largely because of the prerogatives of class privilege, their relative freedom was nevertheless a visible rebuke to the reductive stereotypes of homosexuality that circulated and were reinforced in the culture of the period. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of Henry James and queer studies, readers of late Victorian and modern literature, and those interested in the history and social construction of gender roles.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anesko, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Lover. of the Fine Amenities.- 2. An American Who Loved England.- 3. The “Emmetry”.- 4. “The Baby”.- 5. Fast & Vicious?.- 6. Das Land ohne Musik.- 7. A Network of Repressions.- 8. “Arising from Dreams of Thee”.- 9. Immortal Youth.- 10. Within the Rim.- 11. “Keeping House with a Stranger”.- 12. The Jamesian Condom.- 13. Breaches.

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Anesko is Professor of English and American Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. Besides serving as one of four General Editors of the ongoing Cambridge Edition of The Complete Fiction of Henry James, he is the author of five books, the most recent of which is Generous Mistakes: Incidents of Error in Henry James (2017).