The Politics of Love
Queer Heterosexuality in Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Published by: University of New Hampshire Press
Series: Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies
240 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.70 in
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Published by: University of New Hampshire Press
Series: Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies
240 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.70 in
Other Retailers:
MAXIME FOERSTER is an assistant professor of French in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
"The introduction, 'The Trouble with Being Straight in Nineteenth-Century French Literature,' is a tour de force, a thorough survey of gender theorists--French, American, and otherwise--from Freud forward, including Foucault, Rich, Wittig, Butler, Bourdieu, and Beauvoir. . . . Essential."—CHOICE
"What is queer about the nineteenth-century French novel? Quite a bit, according to Foerster's revealing new study. The author finds queerness and heterosexual trouble in the 'refinement of perversions' typical of late-century Decadence but also in the various challenges to gender and sexual norms in early Romantic novels. The book gives us new words for what today's readers might find modern about the nineteenth century."—Margaret Waller, Pomona College
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