Feeling Backward Loss and the Politics of Queer History

Name: Feeling Backward Loss and the Politics of Queer History
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ISBN: 9780674032392

ISBN-10: 067403239X

ISBN-13: 9780674032392

Edition: 2007

Authors: Heather Love

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Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings clear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses--losses that have been hard to identify or mourn, since many aspects of historical gay culture are so closely associated with the pain and shame of the closet.Feeling Backward makes an effort to value aspects of historical gay experience that now threaten to disappear, branded as embarrassing evidence of the bad old days before Stonewall. It looks at early-twentieth-century queer novels often dismissed as "too depressing" and asks how we might value and…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 206
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Stephen D. Houston, University Professor of Anthropology at Brigham Young University, is the author of "Reading the Past: Maya Glyphs, Hieroglyphs & History at Dos Pilas: Dynastic Politics of the Classic Maya" & coauthor of "Classic Maya Place Names".Heather Love is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.



Introduction



Emotional Rescue: The Demands of Queer History



Forced Exile: Walter Pater's Backward Modernism



The End of Friendship: Willa Cather's Sad Kindred



Spoiled Identity: Radclyffe Hall's Unwanted Being



Impossible Objects: Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Longing for Revolution


Epilogue: The Politics of Refusal


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index