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Monumental anxieties : homoerotic desire and feminine influence in 19th century U.S. literature
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Monumental anxieties : homoerotic desire and feminine influence in 19th century U.S. literature

Author: Scott S Derrick
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Recent gender-based scholarship on nineteenth-century American literature has established male authors' crucial awareness of the competition from popular women writers. Critical work in gay studies and queer theory has stressed the importance in canonical American literature of homoerotic relations between men, even before "homosexuality" became codified at the end of the century. Scott Derrick draws on these  Read more...
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Scott S Derrick
ISBN: 0813524717 9780813524719 0813524725 9780813524726
OCLC Number: 37024777
Description: xii, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Authoring the Self: Gender, Identity, and Authorial Self-Construction in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Culture --
Pt. 1. Purloined Letters: The Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. 1. Gender and the Scene of Writing: Homophobia, the Feminine, and Narrative in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. 2. Edgar Allan Poe and the Purloined Mother --
Pt. 2. Circuits of Desire: Authority in the Early and Late Fiction of Henry James. 3. Early Authorizations in Roderick Hudson and The American. 4. Late Authorizations in The Ambassadors and The Wings of the Dove --
Pt. 3. Ruptured Bodies, Ruptured Tales: Masculine Injury and Transcendence in Turn-of-the-Century U.S. Literature.
Responsibility: Scott S. Derrick.

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"Recent gender-based scholarship on nineteenth-century American literature has established male authors' crucial awareness of the competition from popular women writers. Critical work in gay studies and queer theory has stressed the importance in canonical American literature of homoerotic relations between men, even before "homosexuality" became codified at the end of the century. Scott Derrick draws on these insights to explore an ongoing compositional crisis in which a series of male authors struggle to accommodate identity-threatening desires, and yet consolidate literature as a masculine and heterosexual enterprise."--BOOK JACKET.

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