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In a thought-provoking and free-minded journey across six centuries of literary classics and sexual polemics, Francois Cusset investigates the queering of the French literary canon by American writers and scholars. In The Inverted Gaze, Cusset presents the foundations and rationale for queer theory, the field of study - established in the 1990s and promulgated by the likes of Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Michael Warner (in the wake of Michel Foucault) - which challenges a supposed 'heteronormative' ideology in Western culture.

Francois Cusset (author of the acclaimed book French Theory) investigates the queering of the French literary canon by American writers and scholars in this thought-provoking and free-minded journey across six centuries of literary classics and sexual polemics.

Preface to the English Edition: A Queer World	p. 7
Introduction: Holes in Glory	p. 15
Perverse Readings	p. 23
Anglofollies	p. 35
Drag Queens at Bouvines	p. 45
Renaissance and (De)tumescence	p. 57
The Libertines of Fuck-All	p. 69
The Bourgeoisie of the Inverted	p. 81
The Modern and Its Muddle	p. 105
So As Not to Finish	p. 133
Index	p. 139
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The Inverted Gaze

The Inverted Gaze

1551524104

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