An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies: Reading Queerly

Stockton, Will

ISBN 10: 0367678101 / ISBN 13: 9780367678104

Published by Routledge, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies: Reading Queerly
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367678101
• ISBN 13: 9780367678104
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies: Reading Queerly is the first introduction to queer theory written especially for students of literature. Tracking the emergence of queer theory out of gay and lesbian studies, this book pays unique attention to how queer scholars have read some of the most well-known works in the English language.

Organized thematically, this book explores queer theoretical treatments of sexual identity, gender and sexual norms and normativity, negativity and utopianism, economics and neoliberalism, and AIDS activism and disability. Each chapter expounds upon foundational works in queer theory by scholars including Michel Foucault, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Lee Edelman. Each chapter also offers readings of primary texts –ranging from the highly canonical, like John Milton’s Paradise Lost, to more contemporary works of popular fiction, like Stephen King’s ’Salem’s Lot. Along the way, An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies: Reading Queerly demonstrates how queer reading methods work alongside other methods like feminism, historicism, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis.

By modelling queer readings, this book invites literature students to develop queer readings of their own. It also suggests that reading queerly is not simply a matter of reading work written by queer people. Queer reading attunes us to the queerness of even the most straightforward text.

About the Author

Will Stockton is Professor of English at Clemson University. His previous books include Members of His Body: Shakespeare, Paul, and a Theology of Nonmonogamy (Fordham University Press, 2017) and Playing Dirty: Sexuality and Waste in Early Modern Comedy (University of Minnesota Press, 2011).