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The Inverted Gaze: Queering the French Literary Classics in America

ISBN: 9781551524108 | 1551524104
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist
Pub. Date: 10/25/2011

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
A book by the acclaimed intellectual historian on the queering of the French literary canon by American writers and scholars.

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, ... MORE
Preface to the English Edition: A Queer Worldp. 7
Introduction: Holes in Gloryp. 15
Perverse Readingsp. 23
Anglofolliesp. 35
Drag Queens at Bouvinesp. 45
Renaissance and (De)tumescencep. 57
The Libertines of Fuck-Allp. 69
The Bourgeoisie of the Invertedp. 81
The Modern and Its Muddlep. 105
So As Not ... MOREp. 133
Indexp. 139
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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.


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