{"product_id":"the-queerness-of-water-troubled-ecologies-in-the-eighteenth-century-paperback-softback-9780813949512","title":"The Queerness of Water; Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813949512","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Queerness of Water\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTroubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJeremy Chow (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813949512\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 June 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e254 pages, 8 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.173 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“Clearly and energetically written, Chow makes a valuable and important contribution to blue humanities criticism in the context of eighteenth-century English literary studies. \u003ci\u003eThe Queerness of Water\u003c\/i\u003e moves beyond salt water to river banks, water torture, and ice-scapes, to show how a 'beyond the oceans' approach can renovate blue thinking in the eco-humanities. It builds on existing queer ecostudies by connecting contemporary theorists to historical English literature and by making queer studies more watery and watery studies more queer.” - Steven Mentz, St. John's University, author of \u003ci\u003eOcean (Object Lessons)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Chow makes an original and substantial contribution to at least three fields: 18th-century literary studies, ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, and queer studies. Such a multi-pronged contribution is rare and important. Queerness also features many excellent close readings, including of authors--such as Jonathan Swift--who have rarely been read through a queer lens.” - Nicole Seymour, California State University, Fullerton, author of \u003ci\u003eBad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis highly original book reconsiders canonical long eighteenth-century narratives through the conjoined lenses of queer studies and the environmental humanities. Moving from Daniel Defoe’s  \u003ci\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e and Jonathan Swift’s  \u003ci\u003eGulliver’s Travels\u003c\/i\u003e to Gothic novels including Mary Shelley’s  \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeremy Chow investigates the role that bodies of water play in reading these central texts.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChow navigates various representations and phases of water to magnify the element’s furtive yet pronounced effects on narrative, theory, and identity. Water, Chow reveals, is both a participant and a stage upon which bodily violation manifests. The sea, rivers, pools, streams, and glaciers all participate in a violent decolonialism that fractures, revises, and reshapes notions of colonial masculinity emerging throughout the long eighteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough an innovative series of intermezzi,  \u003ci\u003eThe Queerness of Water\u003c\/i\u003e also traces the afterlives of eighteenth-century literature in late twentienth- and twenty-first-century film, television, and other popular media, opening up conversations regarding canon, literary criticism, pedagogy, and climate change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: What'\u003cbr\u003es Queer about Water?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Taken by Storm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntermezzo: Teaching Wreckage in Rising Waters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. See Monkeys\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntermezzo: Reading Swift on the Planet of the Apes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Aqueous Punishment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntermezzo: Off with Her Head\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Sacrif-Ice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntermezzo: Freeze!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion: Sea Monsters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University of Virginia Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681284649240,"sku":"9780813949512","price":22.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-queerness-of-water-troubled-ecologies-in-the-eighteenth-century-paperback-softback-9780813949512","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}