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Queer Dickens
Erotics, Families, Masculinities
Holly Furneaux
294 pages
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Illus.
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216x138mm
978-0-19-956609-9
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Hardback
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10 December 2009
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- Locates Dickens in a wider literary and social context alongside authors including Tennyson, Collins, and Whitman
- Challenges stereotypical notions of Victorian culture by arguing that Dickens points to ways in which the Victorians accommodated diverse gender roles, multiple sexualities, and families of choice
- Cross-genre study, which considers novels, poetry, life-writing, and journalism, as well as the pertinent political and legal debates of the period
This book offers a radically new reading of Dickens and his major works. It demonstrates that, rather than representing a largely conventional, conservative view of sexuality and gender, he presents a distinctly queer corpus, everywhere fascinated by the diversity of gender roles, the expandability of notions of the family, and the complex multiplicity of sexual desire. The book examines the long overlooked figures of bachelor fathers, maritally resistant men, and male nurses. It explores Dickens's attention to a longing, not to reproduce, but to nurture, his interest in
healing touch, and his articulation, over the course of his career, of homoerotic desire.
Holly Furneaux places Dickens's writing in a broad literary and social context, alongside authors including Bulwer-Lytton, Tennyson, Braddon, Collins, and Whitman, to make a case for Dickens's central position in queer literary history. Examining novels, poetry, life-writing, journalism, and legal and political debates, Queer Dickens argues that this eminent Victorian can direct us to the ways in which his culture could, and did, comfortably accommodate homoeroticism and families of choice. Further, it contends that Dickens's portrayals of nurturing masculinity and his concern with touch and affect between men challenge what we have been used to thinking about Victorian
ideals of maleness.
Queer Dickens intervenes in current debates about the Victorians (neither so punitive nor so prudish as we once imagined) and about the methodologies of the histories of the family and of sexuality. It makes the case for a more optimistic, nurturing, and life-affirming trajectory in queer theory.Readership: Students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture, the history of the family, the history of sexuality, queer and gender theory.
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Holly Furneaux, Lecturer in Victorian Studies, University of Leicester
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"Dedicated to Sally Ledger, this book will not be the last reminder of the sad loss of a valued mentor and friend. Furneaux's first book is testimony to the impact of Sally's scholarship and pedagogy on a new generation of Victorian scholars: ueer Dickens is a book of which Sally would have been proud." - Wendy Parkins, Dickens Quarterly "provides fruitful topics for sensitively historic ways into Dickens that seem to leave him intact and, at the same time, appreciably different" - Matthew Inglebym Times Literary Supplement "an important blueprint for future work" - Andrew Elfenbein, New Books Online "illuminatingly attentive to historical and literary subtleties. Furneaux's
methodology is gentler with and more dependent on the texts she considers." - Matthew Ingleby, Times Literary Supplement "Queer theory as Furneaux develops it seems astonishingly versatile and promising... a major achievement in scholarly terms, and immensely enjoyable" - Nicola Bradbury, The Dickensian "What is especially exciting about Furneaux's account is that it not only at long last brings the body of Dickens's writing within the compass of queer theory, but it suggests a new turn in queer theory itself." - Richard A. Kaye, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
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Introduction: Telling it Straight: Dickens in a Queer Context
1: Reconfiguring the Domestic: Bachelor Dads
2: Serial Bachelorhood and Counter-Marital Plotting
3: Families of Choice: Homoerotic Intermarriage and Sibling Triangulation
4: Homotropics: Queer Travels and New Homelands
5: <"It is impossible to be Gentler>": The Homoerotics of Nursing
6: The Gentle Man's Queer Touch: Reparative Masculinities
Postscript: Doing Dickens: The Queer Politics of Adaptation
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