David Greven

Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Expanding our understanding of the possibilities and challenges inherent in the expression of same-sex desire, Greven identifies a pattern of what he calls 'gender protest' in the writings of Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. As Greven shows, antebellum authors took up the taboo subjects of same-sex desire and female sexuality and were adept in their use of a variety of rhetorical means for expressing the inexpressible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317130116
• Artikelnr.: 49352375

Autorenporträt

David Greven is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. His other books include The Fragility of Manhood, Psycho-Sexual, and Men Beyond Desire.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Phallic Images
Chapter 2 Ligeia's Lament
Chapter 3 New Girls and Bandit Brides
Chapter 4 No Country for Melancholy Young Men
Chapter 5 American Shudders
Chapter 6 Hester is Burning