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Introduction | 1
Part I: Queer Natures
Charles Darwin, Queer Theorist | 11
The Comedy of Nature: Darwinian Feminism
in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts | 50
Art for Science’s Sake: Wilde in Whitman’s Wilderness | 90
Exfoliating Modernist Realism: Carpenter,
Darwin, and Forster | 97
“Spectacles in Color”: The Primitive Drag
of Langston Hughes | 106
Epilogue: The Myth of Nature | 134
Part II: Queer Mythologies
Fast Books Read Slow: The Shapes of Speed
in Manhattan Transfer and The Sun Also Rises | 159
Making Modernism New: Queer Mythology
in The Young and Evil | 194
American Failurism: Hart Crane’s The Bridge and Kenneth
Burke’s Paradox of Purity | 229
The Cruelty of Breeding: Queer Time in The Waste Land | 258
Essays
The Ancients and the Queer Moderns
Scott Herring | 271
Contrary / Sexual / Feeling
Heather Love | 288
Late Sam See
Wendy Moffat | 300
Acknowledgments | 309
List of Contributors | 311
Index | 313

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 7 January 2020
      ISBN-13 9780823286997
      978-0823286997
      ISBN-10 0823286991
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Introduction | 1
      Part I: Queer Natures
      Charles Darwin, Queer Theorist | 11
      The Comedy of Nature: Darwinian Feminism
      in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts | 50
      Art for Science’s Sake: Wilde in Whitman’s Wilderness | 90
      Exfoliating Modernist Realism: Carpenter,
      Darwin, and Forster | 97
      “Spectacles in Color”: The Primitive Drag
      of Langston Hughes | 106
      Epilogue: The Myth of Nature | 134
      Part II: Queer Mythologies
      Fast Books Read Slow: The Shapes of Speed
      in Manhattan Transfer and The Sun Also Rises | 159
      Making Modernism New: Queer Mythology
      in The Young and Evil | 194
      American Failurism: Hart Crane’s The Bridge and Kenneth
      Burke’s Paradox of Purity | 229
      The Cruelty of Breeding: Queer Time in The Waste Land | 258
      Essays
      The Ancients and the Queer Moderns
      Scott Herring | 271
      Contrary / Sexual / Feeling
      Heather Love | 288
      Late Sam See
      Wendy Moffat | 300
      Acknowledgments | 309
      List of Contributors | 311
      Index | 313

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