Gender protest and same-sex desire in antebellum American literature: Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melvile / by David Greven, University of South Carolina, USA.
Material type: TextPublication details: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]Description: viii, 250 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781409469926 (hbk)
- 1409469921 (hbk)
- 810.9/353 23
- PS217.H65 G83 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: battle with the world: theorizing same-sex desire in antebellum American literature -- Phallic images: Fuller, Lacan, and gender politics -- Ligeia's lament: femininity and the erotics of race -- New girls and bandit brides: female narcissism and lesbian desire in Fuller's Summer on the lakes -- No country for melancholy young men: mourning and hypocrisy -- In Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym -- American shudders: race, representation, and sodomy in Redburn -- Hester is burning: desire and gendered grief in The scarlet letter.
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