"Feeling Backward" weighs the costs of the contemporary move to
the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening
tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings
clear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses--losses that
have been hard to identify or mourn, since many aspects of
historical gay culture are so closely associated with the pain and
shame of the closet.
"Feeling Backward" makes an effort to value aspects of
historical gay experience that now threaten to disappear, branded
as embarrassing evidence of the bad old days before Stonewall. It
looks at early-twentieth-century queer novels often dismissed as
"too depressing" and asks how we might value and reclaim the dark
feelings that they represent. Heather Love argues that instead of
moving on, we need to look backward and consider how this history
continues to affect us in the present.
Through elegant readings of Walter Pater, Willa Cather,
Radclyffe Hall, and Sylvia Townsend Warner, and through stimulating
engagement with a range of critical sources, "Feeling Backward"
argues for a form of politics attentive to social exclusion and its
effects.
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