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Author: Kate Thomas (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Bryn Mawr College)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.10cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9780199731169
ISBN 10: 0199731160
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 05 January 2012
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
After reading Postal Pleasures, a new light can be shed ... Thomas explores the telegraph as a technology that is tactile and sonic, rather than visual ... The theoretical play here is brilliant, and cannot be done justice in a review.
<br> Postal Pleasures is innovative, authoritative, and well-written-an exemplary work in Victorian studies that skillfully integrates frameworks drawn from literary studies, cultural history, queer theory, and postcolonial studies. --Sharon Marcus, author of Between Women: Friendship, Desire, andMarriage in Victorian England<p><br> Traversing the busy crossroads between Victorian and queer studies, Postal Pleasures charts an exciting path through a superficially sexless bureaucracy. Thomas compellingly shows how, in the postal service, desire and selfhood are both media and mediation, and queerness less an identity than a mode of transaction. To sum it up in a phrase: ontology recapitulates philately. --William A. Cohen, author of Embodied: Victorian Literature and the Senses<p><br>
"""Postal Pleasures is innovative, authoritative, and well-written-an exemplary work in Victorian studies that skillfully integrates frameworks drawn from literary studies, cultural history, queer theory, and postcolonial studies."" --Sharon Marcus, author of Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England ""Traversing the busy crossroads between Victorian and queer studies, Postal Pleasures charts an exciting path through a superficially sexless bureaucracy. Thomas compellingly shows how, in the postal service, desire and selfhood are both media and mediation, and queerness less an identity than a mode of transaction. To sum it up in a phrase: ontology recapitulates philately."" --William A. Cohen, author of Embodied: Victorian Literature and the Senses ""Postal Pleasures is a pleasure to read, and it gains strength as it goes along, not least by introducing insightful readings of less well-known works which make us think differently about authors we thought we knew....Through her engaging, playful and convincing readings, Thomas has taken the universal and made it seem very queer, indeed."" --Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies"
Author Information
Kate Thomas is Associate Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College.
