{"product_id":"the-routledge-handbook-of-classics-and-queer-theory-9781032026794","title":"The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew directions in queer theory continue to trouble the boundaries of both queerness and the classical, leading to an explosion of new work in the vastâand increasingly unchartedâintersection between these disciplines, which this interdisciplinary volume seeks to explore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis handbook convenes an international group of experts who work on the classical world and queer theory. The discipline of Classics has been involved with, and implicated in, queer theory from the start. By placing front and center the rejection of heteronormativity, queer theory has provided Classics with a powerful tool for analyzing non-normative sexual and gender relations in the ancient West, while Classics offers queer theory ancient material (such as literature, visual arts, and social practices) that challenges a wide range of modern normative categories. The collection demonstrates the vitality of this particular moment in queer classical studies, featuring an expansive array of methodologies applie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral Introduction - \u003cem\u003eElla Haselswerdt, Sara H. Lindheim, and Kirk Ormand\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cstrong\u003eClassics and Queer Theory: Beginnings;\u003c\/strong\u003e 1. How Did \u003ci\u003eWe\u003c\/i\u003e Get \u003ci\u003eHere\u003c\/i\u003e? - \u003cem\u003eKirk Ormand\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cstrong\u003eQueer Subjectivities;\u003c\/strong\u003e 2. 'Wild' Achilles and the Epistemology of the Ferox in Homer’s \u003cem\u003eIliad - Melissa Mueller\u003c\/em\u003e; 3. Black[ened] Queer Classical: Cicero’s pro Archia poeta and Seneca’s Natural Questions (and Epistulae Morales 114) in Posthuman Perspective - \u003cem\u003ePatrice Rankine\u003c\/em\u003e; 4. Priapus Unlimited: Queer(ing) Identity, Agency, and Bodies without Boundaries in Roman Art - \u003cem\u003eLinnea Åshede\u003c\/em\u003e; 5. Tribad Philaenis and Lesbian Bassa: Queer Subjectivities in Martial - \u003cem\u003eKristin Mann\u003c\/em\u003e; 6. Queering Divine Authority and Logical Consistency in Aeschylus’ Oresteia - \u003cem\u003eGiulia Maria Chesi\u003c\/em\u003e; 7. Catullus Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Between Freud and Foucault - \u003cem\u003ePaul Allen Miller\u003c\/em\u003e; 8. A Murky Unlearning: Sophocles and the Greek Art of Failure - \u003cem\u003eFrancesca Spiegel\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cstrong\u003eQueer Times and Places;\u003c\/strong\u003e 9. Queer Musicality in Classical Texts - \u003cem\u003eTom Sapsford\u003c\/em\u003e; 10. Encountering Absence: Queer Traces, Ghosts, and Performance Otherwise - \u003cem\u003eMarcus Bell\u003c\/em\u003e; 11. Queerly Beloved: Nemesis, \u003ci\u003eCredula Spes\u003c\/i\u003e, and Queer Temporalities in Tibullus Book 2 - \u003cem\u003eSara H. Lindheim\u003c\/em\u003e; 12. Time and Punishment, or Terence’s Queer Pedagogy - \u003cem\u003eDavid Youd\u003c\/em\u003e; 13. Narcissus and the Happy Inch: Queering Social Reproduction in the Roman House - \u003cem\u003eDavid Fredrick\u003c\/em\u003e; 14. 'How Could a City Become Straight?:' Aristophanes and the Trans Foundations of the Comic State - \u003cem\u003eIsabel Ruffell\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cstrong\u003eQueer Kinships;\u003c\/strong\u003e 15. Hippocrates the 'Father'? Disturbing Attachment Genealogies in the History of Ancient Medicine - \u003cem\u003eNicolette D’Angelo\u003c\/em\u003e; 16. Tamquam Favus: Queer Kinship and Monetary Value in Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis\u003cem\u003e - Elliott Piros\u003c\/em\u003e; 17. Nonbinary Mercury and the Queer Arts of Astrology - \u003cem\u003eHannah Silverblank\u003c\/em\u003e; 18. Queering Kinship against Genealogy: Crip Ancestorship, Chosen Families, Alternative Intimacies and Other Ways of Refusing the Classical Tradition - \u003cstrong\u003eMarchella Ward\u003c\/strong\u003e; 19. Queer Kinship in Ancient Literature - \u003cem\u003eJay Oliver\u003c\/em\u003e; 20. The Greatest Generation: Golden Age, Spontaneous Generation, and Queer Kinship in Vergil’s \u003ci\u003eGeorgics\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003cem\u003eMartin Devecka\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cstrong\u003eQueer Receptions;\u003c\/strong\u003e 21. Queering Feminine Movement: Sappho, Hồ Xuân Hýõng and Vi Khi Nao - \u003cem\u003eKelly Nguyen\u003c\/em\u003e; 22. Les Guérillères: Sappho and the Lesbian Body - \u003cem\u003eIrene Han\u003c\/em\u003e; 23. The Rise and Fall of the Queer Male Body in Mid-Century Muscle Photography - \u003cem\u003eAlastair J.L. Blanshard\u003c\/em\u003e; 24; Destiny’s Queer Scribblings: Greek Myth and Etiologies of HIV\/AIDS - \u003cem\u003eEmilio Capettini\u003c\/em\u003e; 25. Socrates and Sedgwick: Ancient Greece in Epistemology of the Closet - \u003cem\u003eDaniel Orrells\u003c\/em\u003e; 26. Shedding Light, Casting Shadows: Queerness, Club Performances, and the Faux-Natural Narratives of Classical Reception - \u003cem\u003eEleonora Colli\u003c\/em\u003e; Ancient Pasts\/Queer Futures 27. Queer Philology - \u003cem\u003eShane Butler\u003c\/em\u003e; 28. How to Do the History of Elagabalus - \u003cem\u003eZach Herz\u003c\/em\u003e; 29. Queer Interspeciesism, or Oppian’s Wild Love - \u003cem\u003eMario Telò\u003c\/em\u003e; 30. Sappho’s Body, Queer Abstraction, and Lesbian Futurity - \u003cem\u003eElla Haselswerdt\u003c\/em\u003e; 31. Medea’s Ghosts: Cherríe Moraga and Queer Ecologies - \u003cem\u003eNancy Worman\u003c\/em\u003e; 32. Speculation on classical reception: Queer Desire and N.K. Jemisin’s 'The Effluence Engine' - \u003cem\u003eMathura Umachandran\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018801512791,"sku":"9781032026794","price":209.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032026794.jpg?v=1750778196","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-routledge-handbook-of-classics-and-queer-theory-9781032026794","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}