{"product_id":"the-cambridge-history-of-queer-american-literature-hardback-9781108843454","title":"The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature (Hardback) 9781108843454","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge History of Queer American Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book narrates the history of queer American literature from its earliest beginnings to the present.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBenjamin Kahan (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108843454, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 June 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e924 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16.1 x 4.8 cm, 1.57 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature marshals many of the field's most brilliant and influential scholars in order to construct a queer American literary history from as many sharp-eyed perspectives as possible. It spans multiple modes of historiography, attends to manifold configurations of gender and sexual non-normativity as well as racial and ethnic identities, and demonstrates a plethora of methodological approaches. In bringing together these multifarious strategies and focuses, the volume magnificently accomplishes its ambitious goal of representing the queer history of American literature. Yet it is also a refreshingly queer narration of that history, juxtaposing accepted versions of the stories it tells with cutting-edge provocations, canonical figures with those deserving of more attention, and standard notions of what counts as literary with understudied genres.' Aaron J. Stone, Journal of Modern Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMoby-Dick's Ishmael and Queequeg share a bed, Janie in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God imagines her tongue in another woman's mouth. And yet for too long there has not been a volume that provides an account of the breadth and depth of queer American literature. This landmark volume provides the first expansive history of this literature from its inception to the present day, offering a narrative of how American literary studies and sexuality studies became deeply entwined and what they can teach each other. It examines how American literature produces and is in turn woven out of sexualities, gender pluralities, trans-ness, erotic subjectivities, and alternative ways of inhabiting bodily morphology. In so doing, the volume aims to do nothing less than revise the ways in which we understand the whole of American literature. It will be an indispensable resource for scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Synchronic Histories of American Sexuality\u003cbr\u003e The Sexuality of American History: 1. Transatlantic origin stories: the transmasculinity narrative in the Anglophone Atlantic eighteenth century\u003cbr\u003e 2. Queering the founding\u003cbr\u003e or, the revolution of sex\u003cbr\u003e 3. Whither the queer history of slavery?\u003cbr\u003e 4. Queering immigration and the social body, 1875–1924\u003cbr\u003e 5. The queerness of WWII: problems and possibilities\u003cbr\u003e 6. Queer bonds of Cold War sexuality\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'The Dead Never Die': pre-exposure prophylaxis, queer temporalities, and the literature of AIDS\u003cbr\u003e 8. Fiction in the post-Lawrence v. Texas era, or inventing heteronormative queerness\u003cbr\u003e Queer Literary Movements: 9.Trans-ing transcendentalism\u003cbr\u003e 10. Sentimental literature and the erotics of identification\u003cbr\u003e 11. Queer modernism and misfit identity\u003cbr\u003e 12. Imperialism and the queer Harlem renaissance\u003cbr\u003e 13. The mystical sexuality of the beats and the Berkeley renaissance\u003cbr\u003e 14. The New York school's queer happiness\u003cbr\u003e 15. Chicana and Latina lesbian feminists and the radical making of anthological archives of willfulness\u003cbr\u003e 16. Queer literature after queer theory\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Diachronic Histories of American Sexuality\u003cbr\u003e Queer Genre: 17. Queer historical poetics and queer formalism: American poetry before 1850\u003cbr\u003e 18. Queer mythology in American poetry, 1855–1913\u003cbr\u003e 19. Funny emotions: queer lyric from the new verse to the New American poets\u003cbr\u003e 20. Queer American poetry now\u003cbr\u003e 21. Queer American drama: plays, replays, yet-to-be-plays\u003cbr\u003e 22. The gay genre: musical theatre from Showboat to A Strange Loop\u003cbr\u003e 23. The oneiric golden age of gay and lesbian pulp fiction\u003cbr\u003e 24. Queering desire in American science fiction\u003cbr\u003e 25. Queering comics histories\u003cbr\u003e 26. LGBT bestsellers\u003cbr\u003e 27. History touches us everywhere: American queer and trans memoir in the long twentieth century\u003cbr\u003e Race and the Politics of Queer and Trans Representation: 28. Whiteness and trans genre, whiteness as trans genre\u003cbr\u003e 29. Queer types for early Asian American literature\u003cbr\u003e 30. The queerness of Blackness\u003cbr\u003e 31. Two-spirit writers and the sovereign erotic in queer Native American literature\u003cbr\u003e 32. The insubordination of Latina literature\u003cbr\u003e Space and the Regional Imaginary of Queer Literature: 33. Queer southern literature and the dirty South\u003cbr\u003e 34. Queer diaspoRican circuits\u003cbr\u003e 35.'where sadness makes sense': the queer poetics of the midwest terrain\u003cbr\u003e 36. Queer New England regionalism\u003cbr\u003e 37. Queer beginnings at the end of the frontier: Asia and the Pacific in the making of a modern gay American identity\u003cbr\u003e 38. Queer American literature in the world\u003cbr\u003e Part III: Queer Methods\u003cbr\u003e How to Recognize the Queer Past Before (and During) the Advent of Medicalization: 39. Repression, sublimation, and latency from Charles Brockden Brown to James Purdy\u003cbr\u003e 40. Gender variance before trans: a literary history\u003cbr\u003e 41. Female friendship: romantic friends and Boston marriages\u003cbr\u003e 42. The medical model and early gay and lesbian writing\u003cbr\u003e 43. 'Flung out of Space': class and sexuality in American literary history\u003cbr\u003e 44. Quantifying sex\u003cbr\u003e 45. The pleasures of reading camp\u003cbr\u003e 46. The queerness of religion\u003cbr\u003e 47. Tracing queer crip poetics in time\u003cbr\u003e 48. Queer print culture: the market and circulation of gay and lesbian literature.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52503041966360,"sku":"9781108843454","price":99.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781108843454i.jpg?v=1786325338","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-cambridge-history-of-queer-american-literature-hardback-9781108843454","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}