Feeling Backward
Loss and the Politics of Queer History
Heather Love
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 reclaim the dark feelings that they represent. Heather Love argues that instead of moving on, we need to look backward and consider how this history continues to affect us in the present.
Through elegant readings of Walter Pater, Willa Cather, Radclyffe Hall, and Sylvia Townsend Warner, and through stimulating engagement with a range of critical sources, Feeling Backward argues for a form of politics attentive to social exclusion and its effects.
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ISBN | 9780674026520 |
Genre | LGBT Studies/Social Sciences; Popular Culture |
Copyright Date | 2007 |
Publication Date | 31-Oct-07 |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Format | Hardcover |
No. of Pages | 196 |
Notes | Lambda Literary Award Finalist |
Language | English |
Rating | Good |
Paper Type | Electronic Format Available |
Subject | History |
BookID | 3846 |