Reading sideways : the queer politics of art in modern American fiction /

Reading Sideways explores the role various art forms played in American literary fiction in direct relation to the politics of gender and sexuality at the turn of the century. Each chapter takes a different art form as its object: sculpture, portraiture, homecraft, and opera, which appear in the maj...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seitler, Dana (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019
Edition:First edition
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Table of Contents:
  • Strange beauty
  • Small collectivity and the low arts
  • The impossible art object of desire
  • Willa Cather and W.E.B. Du Bois go to the opera