TY  - BOOK
AU  - Borgstrom,Michael
TI  - Befriending the queer nineteenth century: curious attachments 
T2  - Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature
SN  - 9781000299625
AV  - PS374.S72 
U1  - 813.30935266 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Howe, Julia Ward,
KW  - Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
KW  - Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Gender identity in literature
KW  - Queer theory
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Gay & Lesbian
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
N2  - Befriending the Queer Nineteenth Century: Curious Attachments addresses a longstanding question in literary and cultural studies: how can a case be made for the ongoing value of the humanities without an articulation of that field's social effects? In response, this book examines how readers "befriend" works of literature, overtures that are based in a curiosity about the world that help those readers to appreciate the world anew. As an instance of this dynamic, it examines how the contemporary social interest in queerness can be contextualized through encounters with texts produced during an earlier era of queer flux: the U.S. nineteenth century. The book offers first-hand accounts of such meetings, weaving within its analysis reports on readers' engagements with literature and the consequences of those connections. It frames such dynamics as central to a new politics, or to finding a vocabulary for a familiar politics that has not received its due
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367542320
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -