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David Foster Wallace's Toxic Sexuality: Hideousness, Neoliberalism,
Spermatics is the first full-length study of perhaps the most
controversial aspect of Wallace's work - male sexuality. Departing
from biographical accounts of Wallace's troubled relationship to
sex, the book offers new and engaging close readings of this vexed
topic in both his fiction and non-fiction. Wallace consistently
returns to images of sexual toxicity across his career to argue
that, when it comes to sex, men are immutably hideous. He makes
this argument by drawing on a variety of neoliberal logics and
spermatic metaphors, which in their appeal to apparently neutral
economic processes and natural bodily facts, forestall the
possibility that men can change. The book therefore provides a
revisionist account of Wallace's attitudes towards capitalism, as
well as a critical dissection of his approach to masculinity and
sexuality. In doing so, David Foster Wallace's Toxic Sexuality
shows how Wallace can be considered a neoliberal writer, whose
commitment to furthering male sexual toxicity is a disturbing but
undeniable part of his literary project.
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