The Queerness of Water (eBook)

Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century

Jeremy Chow (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
254 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-4952-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This highly original book reconsiders canonical long eighteenth-century narratives through the conjoined lenses of queer studies and the environmental humanities. Moving from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels to Gothic novels including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jeremy Chow investigates the role that bodies of water play in reading these central texts.Chow navigates various representations and phases of water to magnify the element's furtive yet pronounced effects on narrative, theory, and identity. Water, Chow reveals, is both a participant and a stage upon which bodily violation manifests. The sea, rivers, pools, streams, and glaciers all participate in a violent decolonialism that fractures, revises, and reshapes notions of colonial masculinity emerging throughout the long eighteenth century.Through an innovative series of intermezzi, The Queerness of Water also traces the afterlives of eighteenth-century literature in late twentienth- and twenty-first-century film, television, and other popular media, opening up conversations regarding canon, literary criticism, pedagogy, and climate change.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.6.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Under the Sign of Nature
• Reihe/Serie: Under the Sign of Nature
• Zusatzinfo: 8 b&w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Adrienne Rich • Batman and Robin • blue ecostudies • climate change • climate fiction • consent • critical water studies • Daniel Defoe • DC Comics • desexuality • Disney • Diving into the Wreck • Dr. Freeze • Eco-humanities • Edvard Eriksen • Environmental Humanities • Frankenstein • Gothic • Gulliver's Travels • Hans Christian Andersen • ICE • Identity • Intersectionality • Interspecies • intimacy • Jane Austen • John Gabriel Stedman • Jonathan Swift • Literary Studies • Little Ice Age • Mary Shelley • Masculinity • Matthew Gregory Lewis • Mermaid • Mermaids • Mr. Zero • Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam • Pedagogy • Pierre Boulle • Planet of the Apes • Queer failure • queer marriage • Queer Studies • queer temporality • Rene Girard • river • Robinson Crusoe • Sacrifice • Sea Level Rise • sea monsters • Sea Power • Sense and Sensibility • Sexual Violence • Simian • Susquehanna River • The LIttle Mermaid • The Monk • theory • the shape of water • Torture • touch • Vandalism • vathek • Waterfall • William Beckford
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-4952-1 / 0813949521
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-4952-9 / 9780813949529