RT Book
T1 Queer Atlantic: masculinity, mobility, and the emergence of modernist form
A1 Hannah, Daniel
LA English
PP Montreal Kingston London Chicago
PB McGill-Queen's University Press
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1753375045
AB "How can we talk about analogies drawn by fiction between geographical, erotic, and formal mobility? What does it mean when a male character's movements resemble both a privileged kind of wandering and queerly suggestive cruising? Or when a male protagonist's sexual magnetism becomes a force for both social disorder and imperialist expansion? In this analysis of works by five British and American authors, Daniel Hannah examines how masculine mobility--and often specifically transatlantic mobility--both enacts and queerly disorients male privilege, even as that same mobility works as a kind of unstable master trope behind the restless experimentation of modernist fiction. Where the "new modernist studies" has sought to diversify the canon, Queer Atlantic addresses established writers (Melville, Stevenson, James, Conrad, and Ford), arguing for the significance of anxieties about white, masculine privilege and queer potential to their broadening of the novel's formal possibilities. Hannah places these writers in the context of their responses to debates about naval impressment, piracy, emigration, colonization, and the "new imperialism." In the process, he also raises significant questions about the current field of queer ethics, highlighting the strange companionship of queer openness to otherness and imperialist thought for modernist writing. Turning, in its final pages, to examine the surprising resilience of such fictional structures for a more diverse set of American writers after World War One, Queer Atlantic opens out a new understanding of modernism's emergence from a troubling of masculine privilege, mobility, and desire."--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN PN56.M316
SN 978-0-2280-0566-7
SN 978-0-2280-0567-4
K1 Homosexuality in literature
K1 Gay men in literature
K1 Masculinity in literature
K1 Desire in literature
K1 Imperialism in literature
K1 Comparative Literature : American and English
K1 Comparative Literature : English and American
K1 American literature : 20th century : History and criticism
K1 English literature : 20th century : History and criticism
K1 American literature
K1 Comparative literature ; American and English
K1 Comparative literature ; English and American
K1 English literature
K1 Criticism, interpretation, etc