Kristin Mahoney (Michigan State University)

Queer Kinship after Wilde

Transnational Decadence and the Family

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book draws on archival materials, such as diaries, correspondence, and photo albums, to tell the stories of queer subjects who engaged in translation, travel, and transnational collaboration as they generated new ways of approaching kinship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 299
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781009011501
• ISBN-10: 1009011502
• Artikelnr.: 69298872

Autorenporträt

Kristin Mahoney is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Gender in a Global Context at Michigan State University. Her first book, Literature and the Politics of Post-Victorian Decadence, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Queering Kinship/Kinship as Queer Politics: 1. The son of Oscar
Wilde: Cosmopolitanism and textual kinship; 2. "Out and out from the family
to the community": The Housmans and the politics of queer sibling devotion;
Part II. Queer retreat and cosmopolitan community: 3. An extraordinary
marriage: The Mackenzies and the queer cosmopolitanism of Capri; 4.
Bachelorhood and transnational adoption: Harold Acton in China; Part III.
Decadent Modernism and Eroticized Kinship: 5. Richard Bruce Nugent's
'Geisha Man': Harlem decadence, multiraciality, and incest fantasy; 6.
Hallowed incest: Eric Gill, Indian aesthetics, and queer Catholicism.