|
Showing 1 - 4 of
4 matches in All Departments
The Victorians elevated the home and heteronormative family life to
an almost secular religion. Yet alongside the middle-class domestic
ideal were other families, many of which existed in the literature
of the time. Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in
Literature is chiefly concerned with these atypical or "queer"
families. This collection serves as a corrective against limited
definitions of family and is a timely addition to Victorian
studies. Interdisciplinary in nature, the collection opens up new
possibilities for uncovering submerged, marginalized, and
alternative stories in Victorian literature. Broad in scope,
subjects range from Count Fosco and his animal "children" in Wilkie
Collins's The Woman in White, to male kinship within and across
Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, and
the nexus between disability and loving relationships in the
fiction of Dinah Mulock Craik and Charlotte M. Yonge. Queer
Victorian Families is a wide-ranging and theoretically adventurous
expose of the curious relations in the literary family tree.
This title offers fresh readings of Gerald Manley Hopkins' poetry
by considering love in relation to mutual touch.
The first book devoted to the study of love in the writings of
Gerald Manley Hopkins, 'Touching God' offers fresh readings of
Hopkins' poetry by considering love in relation to mutual touch.
The Victorians elevated the home and heteronormative family life to
an almost secular religion. Yet alongside the middle-class domestic
ideal were other families, many of which existed in the literature
of the time. Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in
Literature is chiefly concerned with these atypical or "queer"
families. This collection serves as a corrective against limited
definitions of family and is a timely addition to Victorian
studies. Interdisciplinary in nature, the collection opens up new
possibilities for uncovering submerged, marginalized, and
alternative stories in Victorian literature. Broad in scope,
subjects range from Count Fosco and his animal "children" in Wilkie
Collins's The Woman in White, to male kinship within and across
Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, and
the nexus between disability and loving relationships in the
fiction of Dinah Mulock Craik and Charlotte M. Yonge. Queer
Victorian Families is a wide-ranging and theoretically adventurous
expose of the curious relations in the literary family tree.
|
|