Category: Literary Criticism

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An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies by Will Stockton

An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies | Will Stockton | An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies: Reading Queerly is the first introduction to queer theory written especially for students of literature. Tr

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Victorian Social Activists’ Novels by

Victorian Social Activists’ Novels | | The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militancy.

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Queer and Feminist Theories of Narrative by

Queer and Feminist Theories of Narrative | | This book argues for the importance of narrative theories which consider gender and sexuality through the analysis of a diverse range of texts and med

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South Africa And The Dream Of Love To Come by Brenna M. Munro

South Africa And The Dream Of Love To Come | Brenna M. Munro | After apartheid, South Africa established a celebrated new political order that imagined the postcolonial nation as belonging equally to the descendan

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Middlebrow Queer by Jaime Harker

Middlebrow Queer | Jaime Harker | How could one write about gay life for the mainstream public in Cold War America? Many midcentury gay American writers, hampered by external and inter

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The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature And Irresolution by Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson | The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature And Irresolution | The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution identifies a new archive of Black women’s literature that has heretofore be

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The Cambridge Companion To Lesbian Literature by Jodie Medd

Jodie Medd | The Cambridge Companion To Lesbian Literature | The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval p

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The Cambridge Companion To Queer Studies by Siobhan B. Somerville

Siobhan B. Somerville | The Cambridge Companion To Queer Studies | This Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays represent new and emerging areas, including transgender

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Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

Judith Butler | Gender Trouble | One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing

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Are the Kids All Right by B. J. Epstein

B. J. Epstein | Are the Kids All Right | Epstein explores why sex, sexuality and gender non-conformity is something that many writers and publishers of children’s and young adult lit appear t