Publication

2003 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England

Language

English

Word Count

66,250 words, Guess

Page Count

265 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing6132317

Classifications

  • DDC813/.4
  • LCCPS2127.H63 H37 2003

Description

"In Henry James and Queer Modernity, Eric Haralson examines far-reaching changes in gender politics and the emergence of modem male homosexuality as depicted in the writings of Henry James and three authors who were greatly influenced by him: Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway. Haralson places emphasis on American masculinity as portrayed in fiction between 1875 and 1935, but the book also treats events in England, such as the Oscar Wilde trials, that had a major effect on American literature. He traces James's engagement with sexual politics from his first novels of the 1870s to his "major phase" at the turn of the century. The second section of this study measures James's extraordinary impact on Cather's representation of "queer" characters, Stein's theories of writing and authorship as a mode of resistance to modern sexual regulation, and Hemingway's very self-constitution as a manly American author."--Jacket.

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Series Statement

  • Cambridge studies in American literature and culture

Other Editions

  • Henry James and queer modernityCambridge University Press2003-01-01

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