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• Commended for MLA Prize for a First BookMLA Prize for a First Book 2018

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If the humanist defense of literature calls attention to the work of art, identifying aesthetic practice with the production of social value, then Corey McEleney's bold new book asks an indispensable question: Can art escape such coercive labor without making it escape the value it then labors to affirm? Identifying futility as the queer component in literary production, Futile Pleasures reimagines queer theory in relation to early modern thought. The result is a major work of criticism that contributes not only pleasurably, but also--we must admit it--valuably to debates in both of those fields. -Lee Edelman, Tufts University

GCGBPIf the humanist defense of literature calls attention to the work of art, identifying aesthetic practice with the production of social value, then Corey McEleneyGCOs bold new book asks an indispensable question: Can art escape such coercive labor without making it escape the value it then labors to affirm? Identifying futility as the queer component in literary production, Futile Pleasures reimagines queer theory in relation to early modern thought. The result is a major work of criticism that contributes not only pleasurably, but alsoGCowe must admit itGCovaluably to debates in both of those fields.GC[yen] GCoLee Edelman, Tufts University If the humanist defense of literature calls attention to the work of art, identifying aesthetic practice with the production of social value, then Corey McEleney's bold new book asks an indispensable question: can art escape such coercive labor without making escape the value it then labors to affirm? Identifying futility as the queer component in literary production, Futile Pleasures reimagines queer theory in relation to early modern thought. The result is a major work of criticism that contributes not only pleasurably, but also--we must admit it--valuably to debates in both of those fields. -Lee Edelman, Tufts University

If the humanist defense of literature calls attention to the work of art, identifying aesthetic practice with the production of social value, then Corey McEleney's bold new book asks an indispensable question: Can art escape such coercive labor without making it escape the value it then labors to affirm? Identifying futility as the queer component in literary production, Futile Pleasures reimagines queer theory in relation to early modern thought. The result is a major work of criticism that contributes not only pleasurably, but also-we must admit it-valuably to debates in both of those fields. -Lee Edelman, Tufts University If the humanist defense of literature calls attention to the work of art, identifying aesthetic practice with the production of social value, then Corey McEleney's bold new book asks an indispensable question: can art escape such coercive labor without making escape the value it then labors to affirm? Identifying futility as the queer component in literary production, Futile Pleasures reimagines queer theory in relation to early modern thought. The result is a major work of criticism that contributes not only pleasurably, but also--we must admit it--valuably to debates in both of those fields. -Lee Edelman, Tufts University

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Corey McEleney is Assistant Professor of English at Fordham University.

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