How did the queer subject come to occupy such a central, and in
many respects, contradictory place in the modern world of the early
twentieth century? What role has capitalism played in the
development of modern gay and lesbian identities? Materializing
Queer Desire focuses on the figure of the dandy to explore how and
why gay and lesbian subjects became heroes of modern life. Elisa
Glick argues that the gay subject emerged out of the specifically
modern, capitalist contradiction between the public world of
production and industry and the private world of consumption and
pleasure. Boldly bringing modernism into dialogue with Marxist and
queer theory, Glick offers an innovative, materialist account of
modern queer consciousness that challenges tendencies to oppose
"private" eroticism and the systems of value that govern "public"
interests. In the process she illuminates the connections between
aesthetic, sexual, and social formations in modern life--between
modernity's disruptive, "queer" desires and their unfolding in an
increasingly rationalized society.
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