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Haralson traces the engagement with sexual politics in fiction by Henry James and modernist writers who were influenced by him.
Synopsis
Eric Haralson examines the far-reaching changes in gender politics and the emergence of modern male homosexuality in writings of Henry James and three authors greatly influenced by him: Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway. Emphasizing American masculinity portrayed in fiction between 1875 and 1935, Haralson traces James' engagement with sexual politics from his first novels of the 1870s to his major phase at the turn of the century.
Synopsis
In Henry James and Queer Modernity, Eric Haralson examines far-reaching changes in gender politics and the emergence of modern male homosexuality as depicted in the writings of Henry James and three authors who were greatly influenced by him: Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Indiscreet anatomies and protogay aesthetes in Roderick Hudson and The Europeans; 2. The elusive queerness of âqueer comradesâ: The Tragic Muse and 'The Author of âBeltraffioâ'; 3. The Turn of the Screw, or: The Dispossessed Hearts of Little Gentlemen; 4. Masculinity âchanged and queerâin The Ambassadors; 5. Gratifying âthe eternal boy in us allâ: Willa Cather, Henry James and Oscar Wilde; 6. âThe other half is the manâ: the queer modern triangle of Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway and Henry James; Coda: âNobody is alike Henry Jamesâ: Stein, James and queer futurity; Notes; Bibliography; Index.