{"product_id":"novel-gazing-9780822320401","title":"Novel Gazing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers a collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. This title includes startingly imaginative essays that explore critical practices that can weave the pleasures and disorientations of reading into the fabric of queer analyses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is brilliant. . . and it represents some brilliant critics at their best. These essays illustrate a different and immensely attractive discursive mode. I know of no work more resonant or anywhere near as generous. Beyond that, it marks Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s first move into reparative criticism—and that is a momentous event. ”—James R. Kincaid, University of Southern California\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction is About You \/ Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Digital Senses \u003cbr\u003e Prophylactics and Brains: \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e in the Cybernetic Age of AIDS \/ Kathryn Bond Stockton 41\u003cbr\u003e Strange Gourmet: Taste, Waste, Proust \/ Joseph Litvak 74\u003cbr\u003e Outing Texture \/ Renu Bora 94\u003cbr\u003e The \"Sinister Fruitiness\" of Machines: \u003ci\u003eNeuromancer\u003c\/i\u003e, Internet Sexuality, and the Turing Test \/ Tyler Curtain 128\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Affective Life of Capital \u003cbr\u003e The Importance of Being Bored: The Dividends of Ennui in \u003ci\u003eThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Jeff Nunokawa 151\u003cbr\u003e Balzac's Queer Cousins and Their Friends \/ Michael Lucey 167\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Teacher's Pet \u003cbr\u003e Defying \"Development\": Thomas Day's Queer Curriculum in \u003ci\u003eSandford and Merton\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Anne Chandler 201\u003cbr\u003e Wizards, Warriors, and the Beast Glatisant in Love \/ Barry Weller 227\u003cbr\u003e Forged in Crisis: Queer Beginnings of Modern Masculinity in a Canonical French Novel \/ James Creech 249\u003cbr\u003e Flogging is Fundamental: Applications of Birch in Swinburne's \u003ci\u003eLesbia Brandon\u003c\/i\u003e \/ John Vincent 269\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Men and Nations \u003cbr\u003e Same-Sex Unions in Modern Europe: \u003ci\u003eDaniel Deronda\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAltneuland\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Homoerotics of Jewish Nationalism \/ Jacob Press 299\u003cbr\u003e To Die For \/ Cindy Patton 330\u003cbr\u003e Tearing the Goat's Flesh: Crisis, Homosexuality, Abjection, and the Production of a Late-Twentieth-Century Black Masculinity \/ Robert F. Reid-Pharr 353\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Libidinal Intelligence: Shocks and Recognitions \u003cbr\u003e The Autochoreography of an Ex-Snow Queen: Dance, Desire, and the Black Masculine in Melvin Dixon's \u003ci\u003eVanishing Rooms\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Maurice Wallace 379\u003cbr\u003e Lip-Reading: Woolf's Secret Encounters \/ Stephen Barber 401\u003cbr\u003e The Female World of Exorcism and Displacement (Or, Relations between Women in Henry James's Nineteenth-Century \u003ci\u003eThe Portrait of a Lady\u003c\/i\u003e) \/ Melissa Solomon 444\u003cbr\u003e Strange Brothers \/ Jonathan Goldberg 465\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 483\u003cbr\u003e Index 501\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 517","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406020256087,"sku":"9780822320401","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/novel-gazing-9780822320401","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}