Queer Victorian families [electronic resource] : curious relations in literature / edited by Duc Dau and Shale Preston.

Queer Victorian families [electronic resource] : curious relations in literature / edited by Duc Dau and Shale Preston.

9781315762067 electronic book
9781138792456 hardcover

New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

©2015

English

1 online resource (ix, 219 pages) : illustrations.

PR468.F34 .Q44 2015eb

820.9/355

"The Victorians elevated the home and heteronormative family life to an almost secular religion. Yet alongside the middle-class domestic ideal were other families, many of which existed in the literature of the time. Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature is chiefly concerned with these atypical or "queer" families. This collection serves as a corrective against limited definitions of family and is a timely addition to Victorian studies. Interdisciplinary in nature, the collection opens up new possibilities for uncovering submerged, marginalized, and alternative stories in Victorian literature. Broad in scope, subjects range from Count Fosco and his animal "children" in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, to male kinship within and across Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, and the nexus between disability and loving relationships in the fiction of Dinah Mulock Craik and Charlotte M. Yonge. Queer Victorian Families is a wide-ranging and theoretically adventurous exposé of the curious relations in the literary family tree"-- Provided by publisher.

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Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 15.

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