With Someone, Michael Lucey completes his “misfit” trilogy, which began with The Misfit of the Family (2003), on Balzac, and continued with Never Say I (2006), on Colette, Gide, and Proust. In this final volume, Lucey, very much someone in the intersecting fields of sexuality studies and twentieth-century French fiction, subtly but programmatically moves away from queer theory, toward a subject and a perspective that might be described as postqueer. The first two volumes of his trilogy were published under the auspices of Duke University Press's now-concluded Series Q; while sufficiently informed by queer theory to be considered queer-ish, Someone, the subtitle of which is The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities from Colette to Hervé Guibert, makes a point of differentiating its misfits from the queers they might seem to resemble (as, say, the Colette of volume 3 might seem to resemble the Colette of volume...

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