Queer Kinship after Wilde
Transnational Decadence and the Family
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- Author: Kristin Mahoney, Michigan State University
- Date Published: October 2022
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316519912
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Queer Kinship after Wilde investigates the afterlife of the Decadent Movement's ideas about kinship, desire, and the family during the modernist period within a global context. Drawing on archival materials, including diaries, correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, and photograph albums, it tells the story of individuals with ties to late-Victorian Decadence and Oscar Wilde who turned to the fin-de-siècle past for inspiration as they attempted to operate outside the heteronormative boundaries restricting the practice of marriage and the family. These post-Victorian Decadents and Decadent modernists engaged in translation, travel, and transnational collaboration in pursuit of different models of connection that might facilitate their disentanglement from conventional sexual and gender ideals. Queer Kinship after Wilde attends to the successes and failures that resulted from these experiments, the new approaches to affiliation inflected by a cosmopolitan or global perspective that occurred within these networks as well as the practices marked by Decadence's troubling patterns of Orientalism and racial fetishism.
Read more- Includes extensive archival evidence, including material from diaries, correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, and photo albums
- Focuses on queer experiments in affiliation as performed by twentieth-century individuals who saw themselves as part of a Wildean or late-Victorian Decadent tradition
- Attends to figures who operated within cosmopolitan networks or engaged with a global set of kinship patterns, allowing readers to see how Victorian Decadence's ideas about kinship were revised, reformulated, and inflected with a global sensibility by a network of twentieth-century authors and artists
Awards
- Honourable Mention, NAVSA Book Prize
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- Date Published: October 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316519912
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 157 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.55kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Queering Kinship/Kinship as Queer Politics:
1. The son of Oscar Wilde: Cosmopolitanism and textual kinship
2. “Out and out from the family to the community”: The Housmans and the politics of queer sibling devotion
Part II. Queer retreat and cosmopolitan community:
3. An extraordinary marriage: The Mackenzies and the queer cosmopolitanism of Capri
4. Bachelorhood and transnational adoption: Harold Acton in China
Part III. Decadent Modernism and Eroticized Kinship:
5. Richard Bruce Nugent's 'Geisha Man': Harlem decadence, multiraciality, and incest fantasy
6. Hallowed incest: Eric Gill, Indian aesthetics, and queer Catholicism.
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