The Resource Feeling backward : loss and the politics of queer history, Heather Love
Feeling backward : loss and the politics of queer history, Heather Love
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The item Feeling backward : loss and the politics of queer history, Heather Love represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool.
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- Summary
- "Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings clear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses--losses that have been hard to identify or mourn, since many aspects of historical gay culture are so closely associated with the pain and shame of the closet. Feeling Backward makes an effort to value aspects of historical gay experience that now threaten to disappear, branded as embarrassing evidence of the bad old days before Stonewall. It looks at early-twentieth-century queer novels often dismissed as "too depressing" and asks how we might value and reclaim the dark feelings that they represent. Heather Love argues that instead of moving on, we need to look backward and consider how this history continues to affect us in the present. Through elegant readings of Walter Pater, Willa Cather, Radclyffe Hall, and Sylvia Townsend Warner, and through stimulating engagement with a range of critical sources, Feeling Backward argues for a form of politics attentive to social exclusion and its effects."--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 196 p.
- Note
- Originally published: 2007
- Contents
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- Introduction
- Index
- Emotional Rescue: The Demands of Queer History
- Forced Exile: Walter Pater's Backward Modernism
- The End of Friendship: Willa Cather's Sad Kindred
- Spoiled Identity: Radclyffe Hall's Unwanted Being
- Impossible Objects: Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Longing for Revolution
- Epilogue: The Politics of Refusal
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Isbn
- 9780674026520
- Label
- Feeling backward : loss and the politics of queer history
- Title
- Feeling backward
- Title remainder
- loss and the politics of queer history
- Statement of responsibility
- Heather Love
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings clear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses--losses that have been hard to identify or mourn, since many aspects of historical gay culture are so closely associated with the pain and shame of the closet. Feeling Backward makes an effort to value aspects of historical gay experience that now threaten to disappear, branded as embarrassing evidence of the bad old days before Stonewall. It looks at early-twentieth-century queer novels often dismissed as "too depressing" and asks how we might value and reclaim the dark feelings that they represent. Heather Love argues that instead of moving on, we need to look backward and consider how this history continues to affect us in the present. Through elegant readings of Walter Pater, Willa Cather, Radclyffe Hall, and Sylvia Townsend Warner, and through stimulating engagement with a range of critical sources, Feeling Backward argues for a form of politics attentive to social exclusion and its effects."--
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- Love, Heather
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- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Gays
- Gays
- Gays in literature
- Gay culture
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- Feeling backward : loss and the politics of queer history, Heather Love
- Note
- Originally published: 2007
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-188) and index
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- Contents
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- Introduction
- Index
- Emotional Rescue: The Demands of Queer History
- Forced Exile: Walter Pater's Backward Modernism
- The End of Friendship: Willa Cather's Sad Kindred
- Spoiled Identity: Radclyffe Hall's Unwanted Being
- Impossible Objects: Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Longing for Revolution
- Epilogue: The Politics of Refusal
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Control code
- 008961479
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 196 p.
- Isbn
- 9780674026520
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- unmediated
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- n
- Label
- Feeling backward : loss and the politics of queer history, Heather Love
- Note
- Originally published: 2007
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-188) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
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- Contents
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- Introduction
- Index
- Emotional Rescue: The Demands of Queer History
- Forced Exile: Walter Pater's Backward Modernism
- The End of Friendship: Willa Cather's Sad Kindred
- Spoiled Identity: Radclyffe Hall's Unwanted Being
- Impossible Objects: Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Longing for Revolution
- Epilogue: The Politics of Refusal
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Control code
- 008961479
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 196 p.
- Isbn
- 9780674026520
- Media category
- unmediated
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- rdamedia
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