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" Queer Dickens : "
Holly Furneaux.
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BL
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959951
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b714321
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| Main Entry
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Furneaux, Holly.
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Queer Dickens : : erotics, families, masculinities /\ Holly Furneaux.
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2009.
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1 online resource (282 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0191573205
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: 0191721913
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: 0199566097
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: 9780191573200
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: 9780191721915
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: 9780199566099
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-274) and index.
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| Contents
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List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Telling it Straight: Dickens in a Queer Context; 1 Reconfiguring the Domestic: Bachelor Dads; 2 Serial Bachelorhood and Counter-Marital Plotting; 3 Families of Choice: Homoerotic Intermarriage and Sibling Triangulation; 4 Homotropics: Queer Travels and New Homelands; 5 'It is impossible to be gentler': The Homoerotics of Nursing in Victorian Culture; 6 The Gentle Man's Queer Touch: Reparative Masculinities; Postscript Doing Dickens: The Queer Politics of Adaptation; Bibliography; Index.
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This book offers a radically new reading of Dickens and his major works. It demonstrates that, rather than representing a largely conventional, conservative view of sexuality and gender, he presents a distinctly queer corpus, everywhere fascinated by the diversity of gender roles, the expandability of notions of the family, and the complex multiplicity of sexual desire. The book examines the long overlooked figures of bachelor fathers, maritally resistant men, and male nurses.
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Dickens, Charles,1812-1870-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Dickens, Charles,1812-1870
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Gender identity in literature.
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Queer theory.
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Sex role in literature.
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Gender identity in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Queer theory.
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Sex role in literature.
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.8
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PR4592.H56F87 2009eb
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