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Feeling Singular delivers a study of strange, queer, and avowedly 'non-representative' eighteenth-century masculinities that, nonetheless, represents some of the most exciting new thinking in the field. It's a work that manages to both distill and create * repositioning what we thought we knew about early US history and literature in order to show us a possible future.Jordan Alexander Stein, Fordham University * Feeling Singular reveals how queer studies can be enlivened by the study of eighteenth-century North America, and how some of the most cherished frameworks for historicizing American exceptionalism in the early national period might be unraveled or revised, in turn, by queer studies. * Greta LaFleur, Yale University *

Feeling Singular delivers a study of strange, queer, and avowedly 'non-representative' eighteenth-century masculinities that, nonetheless, represents some of the most exciting new thinking in the field. It's a work that manages to both distill and create * repositioning what we thought we knew about early US history and literature in order to show us a possible future.Jordan Alexander Stein, Fordham University * Feeling Singular reveals how queer studies can be enlivened by the study of eighteenth-century North America, and how some of the most cherished frameworks for historicizing American exceptionalism in the early national period might be unraveled or revised, in turn, by queer studies. * Greta LaFleur, Yale University * Feeling Singular delivers a study of strange, queer, and avowedly 'non-representative' eighteenth-century masculinities that, nonetheless, represents some of the most exciting new thinking in the field. It's a work that manages to both distill and create-repositioning what we thought we knew about early US history and literature in order to show us a possible future. * Jordan Alexander Stein, Fordham University * Feeling Singular reveals how queer studies can be enlivened by the study of eighteenth-century N. America, and how some of the most cherished frameworks for historicizing American exceptionalism in the early national period might be unraveled or revised, in turn, by queer studies. * Greta LaFleur, Yale University *

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Ben Bascom is Assistant Professor of English at Ball State University, Indiana. He is a scholar and teacher of early and nineteenth-century American literatures. He draws upon a queer studies methodology that follows the relationship between power and desire, gender and sexuality, in American literary cultures. In 2019, he was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA.

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