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Poe, Queerness, and the End of Time (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Poe, Queerness, and the End of Time (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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This book builds upon recent theoretical approaches that define
queerness as more of a temporal orientation than a sexual one to
explore how Edgar Allan Poe's literary works were frequently
invested in imagining lives that contemporary readers can
understand as queer, as they stray outside of or aggressively
reject normative life paths, including heterosexual romance,
marriage, and reproduction, and emphasize individuals' present
desires over future plans. The book's analysis of many of Poe's
best-known works, including "The Raven," "The Fall of the House of
Usher," "The Black Cat," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "The
Murders in the Rue Morgue," show that his attraction to the
liberation of queerness is accompanied by demonstrations of extreme
anxiety about the potentially terrifying consequences of
non-normative choices. While Poe never resolved the conflicts in
his thinking, this book argues that this compelling imaginative
tension between queerness and temporal normativity is crucial to
understanding his canon.
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