Kristin Mahoney

Queer Kinship after Wilde (eBook, PDF)

Transnational Decadence and the Family

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Focuses on figures who saw themselves as part of a Decadent tradition as they revised the concept of the family in the early 20th century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009022699
• Artikelnr.: 70912860

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.