Reading Sideways: The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction
Dana Seitler
Abstract
This book explores the pivotal role that various art forms played in American literary fiction in direct relation to the politics of gender and sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century. It tracks the transverse circulation of aesthetic ideas in fiction and argues that at stake in fin-de-siècle American writers’ aesthetic turn was not only the theorization of aesthetic experience, but also a fashioning forth of an understanding of aesthetic form in relation to political arguments and debates about available modes of sociability and cultural expression. To track these practices it performs ... More
Keywords: aesthetics and politics, gender and sexuality, queer aesthetics, American fiction
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 | Print ISBN-13: 9780823282623 |
| Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: January 2020 | DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823282623.001.0001 |
