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Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature - Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville (Paperback)
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Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature - Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville (Paperback)
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Expanding our understanding of the possibilities and challenges
inherent in the expression of same-sex desire before the Civil War,
David Greven identifies a pattern of what he calls 'gender protest'
and sexual possibility recurring in antebellum works. He suggests
that major authors such as Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman
Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne consciously sought to represent
same-sex desire in their writings. Focusing especially on
conceptions of the melancholia of gender identification and shame,
Greven argues that same-sex desire was inextricably enmeshed in
scenes of gender-role strain, as exemplified in the extent to which
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym depicts masculine identity
adrift and in disarray. Greven finds similarly compelling
representations of gender protest in Fuller's exploration of the
crisis of gendered identity in Summer on the Lakes, in Melville's
representation of Redburn's experience of gender nonconformity, and
in Hawthorne's complicated delineation of desire in The Scarlet
Letter. As Greven shows, antebellum authors not only took up the
taboo subjects of same-sex desire and female sexuality, but were
adept in their use of a variety of rhetorical means for expressing
the inexpressible.
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