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...Joseph Lavery “ The Mikado' s Queer Realism: Law, Genre, Knowledge” offers a hermeneutic history of the Gilbert and Sullivan light opera, arguing that the now ubiquitous assertion that it is not “about Japan” became critical only in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War and reflected a pervasive...

...: U of North Carolina P, 1995 . Bredbeck , Gregory W. “‘Queer Superstitions’: Forster, Carpenter, and the Illusions of (Sexual) Identity.” Martin and Piggford 29 –58. Bristow , Joseph . Effeminate England: Homoerotic Writing after 1885 . Buckingham: Open UP, 1995 . Brown...

...Guy Davidson Abstract The novel has been widely acknowledged as a historically significant factor in the construction of gay identities, and the novel is central to queer literary studies. Yet the genre of the gay novel is curiously undertheorized. Scholars seldom address the transformations...

... imagined around figures such as Dr. O'Connor whose desire, as he says, to “boil some good man's potatoes and toss up a child … every nine months” reinforces his queer identity and annexes the importance of disability in many of the novel's characters. Modernist cultural representations of the pregnant male...

...Sam Alexander Mullen Patrick R. , The Poor Bugger's Tool: Irish Modernism, Queer Labor, and Postcolonial History . ( Oxford : Oxford UP , 2012 ), pp. 213 , cloth, $65.00 . © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press Make It Work...

...SCOTT J. JUENGEL GEORGE E. HAGGERTY, Queer Gothic (Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2006), pp. 350, cloth, $65.00, paper, $20.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 An Odd Sexual Mood GEORGE E. HAGGERTY, Queer Gothic (Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2006), pp. 350, cloth...

... the homosocial to the homoerotic to the conjugal; it also invokes Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Behueen Men: Englzsli Litrrahnre arid Mab Hornosocial Desire (1985)' a book that may be said to have launched queer literary studies. While queer studies has been critiqued for ignoring the complexity of women's...

... a thoughtfully theorized cultural archive to the increasing body of contemporary queer scholarly work that explores the nuanced and often fraught relation- ship between space and the sexual imaginary, from the recent paeans to New York City authored by Samuel Delany and George Chauncey among others...

... to “contemporary temporalities, especially those that block the past or disallow slow focus on present experience,” while Gaspar Noé's Irréversible suggests that “all times exist all at once” (95, 213). The flexibility of Matz's reading practice is best seen in the two chapters that discuss queer...

... to queer to posthuman, Steve Pinkerton in Blasphemous Modernism proposes a revision through the lenses of religion. In so doing, he contributes to the current “religious turn” in literary studies, spearheaded by scholars such as Pericles Lewis, Stanley Fish, and J. Hillis Miller. In their wake, Pinkerton...

... as a ‘‘freak’’ (Baldwin’s word) of American nature, as what she calls a ‘‘repos- itory of uniquely American longings and hopes and horrors and frailties’’ (153). At the same time, her own strategic deployment of the King (or is it the Queen?) of Pop as a quintes- sentially queered, raced and erased, revered...

... 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...

... designed to disable. Throughout the study, it becomes clear that although Michel Foucault provides the underpinnings for its histori- cal narrative, contemporary queer theory serves as the source of its social critique. As the narrative of Interior States unfolds, it becomes evident that beyond its...

...-century fictions, this means that there is something profoundly queer about modernism, since queerness has to do not only with sexuality but also with “systems of precedent and connection rooted in nonfamily relation- ships” (159)—relationships whose own origins are often conspicuously external...

..., and Proust (2011), Languages of the Night makes a strong case for the queerness of modernism. In the Company of Strangers theorizes the structuring force of nongenealogical modes of connection in the modern novel. In Languages of the Night, McCrea once again locates queerness where we are unaccustomed...

... of belonging” ( 485–86 ). Since queer thinkers and writers have considered “gendered unbelonging and mobility” to be “subversive and celebratory,” Jess's longing for home may seem distinctly “unqueer” (490). But to define queerness against home misses the ways that being literally unhoused can be a cause...

..., vis‐à‐vis her pregnancy, and the endless possibilities her future self and her future child can take. By using a narrative form—autofiction—that embodies the relational, fluid self of a queer, diasporic, Black subject, Wenzel's novel best captures Black Lives Matter's desire to center those folx who...

... the predicament of the well-married wife has implications for the much-debated question of the novel's relationship to homosexuality and to the “closet.” The argument reverses the more common view of postcolonial and queer theorists concerning orientalism and perversion in Stoker's novel by suggesting that what...

... passenger on the omnibus, the urban stranger—promises to reroute an entire archive of thought about metropolitan life by brushing it along a new, recuperative, and implicitly queer grain. Much in the way that José Esteban Muñoz refuses the negativity of Lee Edelman and Leo Bersani to decipher...

..., but all will be convinced; also informed. I was wonderfully, frighteningly enlightened by this book throughout: I who am a poststructuralist feminist and queer theo- rist; I who have run a gender studies program and presented Austen next to Jean Genet, on the basis of Austen’s fabulous perversities...