This innovative work makes use of psychoanalytic, queer, and narrative theories to read nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and demonstrate how the concept of contingency-whether chance, accident, luck, or mutation-enriches our understanding of how queer sexualities are articulated.
This innovative work makes use of psychoanalytic, queer, and narrative theories to read nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and demonstrate how the concept of contingency-whether chance, accident, luck, or mutation-enriches our understanding of how queer sexualities are articulated.
Valerie Rohy is a Professor of English and the University of Vermont. She is the author of Impossible Women: Lesbian Figures and American Literature (Cornell, 2000), Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality (SUNY, 2009), and Lost Causes: Narrative, Etiology, and Queer Theory (Oxford, 2015).
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Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Taking Chances Heterosexual Necessity 2. Gambling on Marriage: The House of Mirth and The Pit 3. The Calculus of Probabilities: "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" Accidental Narratives 4. Alger and Emerson: Racism, Retroaction, and the Marriage Plot 5. Racial Contingency: Iola Leroy and Passing Contingent Reading 6. Interpretation by Chance: Bechdel, Winnicott, Woolf 7. Exchanging Hours: A Dialogue on Time 8. Conclusion: Not Knowing Notes Index
Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Taking Chances Heterosexual Necessity 2. Gambling on Marriage: The House of Mirth and The Pit 3. The Calculus of Probabilities: "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" Accidental Narratives 4. Alger and Emerson: Racism, Retroaction, and the Marriage Plot 5. Racial Contingency: Iola Leroy and Passing Contingent Reading 6. Interpretation by Chance: Bechdel, Winnicott, Woolf 7. Exchanging Hours: A Dialogue on Time 8. Conclusion: Not Knowing Notes Index
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