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Duc Dau* (Editor), Shale Preston (Editor)
Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book/Anthology › peer-review
The Victorians elevated the home and heteronormative family life to an almost secular religion. Yet alongside the middle-class domestic ideal were other families, many of which existed in the literature of the time. Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature is chiefly concerned with these atypical or "queer" families. This collection serves as a corrective against limited definitions of family and is a timely addition to Victorian studies. Interdisciplinary in nature, the collection opens up new possibilities for uncovering submerged, marginalized, and alternative stories in Victorian literature. Broad in scope, subjects range from Count Fosco and his animal "children" in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, to male kinship within and across Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, and the nexus between disability and loving relationships in the fiction of Dinah Mulock Craik and Charlotte M. Yonge. Queer Victorian Families is a wide-ranging and theoretically adventurous exposé of the curious relations in the literary family tree.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | New York; Abingdon, UK |
Publisher | Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group |
Number of pages | 219 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781317647058, 9781315762067, 9781317647065 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781138792456 |
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Publication status | Published - 11 Feb 2015 |
Name | Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature |
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Volume | 15 |
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript/introduction › peer-review