By Holly Furneaux
This ebook bargains a appreciably new analyzing of Dickens and his significant works. It demonstrates that, instead of representing a principally traditional, conservative view of sexuality and gender, he provides a noticeably queer corpus, all over eager about the range of gender roles, the expandability of notions of the relatives, and the complicated multiplicity of sexual hope. The publication examines the lengthy neglected figures of bachelor fathers, maritally resistant males, and male nurses. It explores Dickens's cognizance to a longing, to not reproduce, yet to nurture, his curiosity in therapeutic contact, and his articulation, over the process his profession, of homoerotic hope.
Holly Furneaux areas Dickens's writing in a large literary and social context, along authors together with Bulwer-Lytton, Tennyson, Braddon, Collins, and Whitman, to make a case for Dickens's important place in queer literary heritage. analyzing novels, poetry, life-writing, journalism, and felony and political debates, Queer Dickens argues that this eminent Victorian can direct us to the ways that his tradition may perhaps, and did, with ease accommodate homoeroticism and households of selection. additional, it contends that Dickens's portrayals of nurturing masculinity and his situation with contact and impact among males problem what we've got been used to considering Victorian beliefs of maleness.
Queer Dickens intervenes in present debates in regards to the Victorians (neither so punitive nor so prudish as we as soon as imagined) and in regards to the methodologies of the histories of the family members and of sexuality. It makes the case for a extra positive, nurturing, and life-affirming trajectory in queer theory.
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