Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature

Author:   Duc Dau (University of Western Australia, Australia) ,  Shale Preston (Macquarie University, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367870133


Pages:   220
Publication Date:   10 December 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Duc Dau (University of Western Australia, Australia) ,  Shale Preston (Macquarie University, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367870133


ISBN 10:   0367870134
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   10 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"Foreword Claudia Nelson Introduction Duc Dau and Shale Preston Part 1: Queervolutions 1. The ""Queer-Looking Party"" Challenge to Family in Alice Laura White 2. Esther Summerson's Estate: The Queer, Quasi-Monarchical Line of Beauty, Family, and Inheritance in Bleak House Shale Preston 3. Michael Field’s Dramatically Queer Family Dynamics Tracy Olverson 4. William Sharp's Neo-Paganism: Queer Identity and the National Family Michael Shaw Part 2: Queer Actually 5. A ""Strange Family Story"": Count Fosco, His Animal Children, and the ""Safe"" Patriarch in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White Monica Flegel 6. ""The right and natural law of things"": Disability and the Form of the Family in the Fiction of Dinah Mulock Craik and Charlotte M. Yonge Clare Walker Gore 7. Two Girls in Love: Romantic Friendship and the Queer Family in Elizabeth Anna Hart’s The Runaway Ellen Brinks Part 3: Queer Connections 8. Reading on the Contrary: Cousin Marriage, Mansfield Park, and Wuthering Heights Talia Schaffer 9. The Queer, Statistical Kinship of Tennyson and Melville Alec Magnet 10. The Victorian Family in Queer Time: Secrets, Sisters, and Lovers in The Woman in White and Fingersmith Lauren N. Hoffer and Sarah E. Kersh"

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Duc Dau is an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia, Australia. Shale Preston is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of English at Macquarie University, Australia.

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