@article{1446773,
      recid = {1446773},
      author = {Jones, Paul Christian,},
      title = {Poe, queerness, and the end of time /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {Resourcefully adapting insights from recent queer  theorists, Jones shifts the conversation on a queer Poe  from sexuality to temporality, creating fresh, provocative  perspectives on some of Poes most influential works. Jones  exposes problematic heteronormative assumptions that have  persistently structured Poes reception, with broader  implications for how we read other nineteenth-century  American authors. --Carl Ostrowski, Professor of English at  Middle Tennessee State University and editor of Collected  Tales, Poems, and Other Writings of Edgar Allan Poe  (Bloomsbury 2021) Jones establishes, definitively, the  validity of considering Poe as a queer author. Indeed,  future studies will have to make a strong case about why we  should not read Poe as queer. This galvanizing book is most  welcome.--David Greven, Professor of English at the  University of South Carolina and author of Gender Protest  and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature This  book builds upon recent theoretical approaches that define  queerness as more of a temporal orientation than a sexual  one to explore how Edgar Allan Poe's literary works were  frequently invested in imagining lives that contemporary  readers can understand as queer, as they stray outside of  or aggressively reject normative life paths, including  heterosexual romance, marriage, and reproduction, and  emphasize individuals' present desires over future plans.  The book's analysis of many of Poe's best-known works,  including "The Raven," "The Fall of the House of Usher,"  "The Black Cat," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "The  Murders in the Rue Morgue," show that his attraction to the  liberation of queerness is accompanied by demonstrations of  extreme anxiety about the potentially terrifying  consequences of non-normative choices. While Poe never  resolved the conflicts in his thinking, this book argues  that this compelling imaginative tension between queerness  and temporal normativity is crucial to understanding his  canon. Paul Christian Jones is Professor of English at Ohio  University, USA, and the author of two books, Unwelcome  Voices: Subversive Fiction in the Antebellum South (2005)  and Against the Gallows: Antebellum American Writers and  the Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment (2011).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1446773},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97083-3},
}