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Queer Atlantic: Masculinity, Mobility, and the Emergence of Modernist Form
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Queer Atlantic: Masculinity, Mobility, and the Emergence of Modernist Form

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The instability of modernist form has everything to do with the social, political, and economic shakeups of the nineteenth century that left masculinity a site of contestation, racial anxiety, homophobic paranoia, performative display, and queer desire. Refusing to take white masculinity for granted, Daniel Hannah considers how the canonical novels of modernist fiction explore the ways that privilege is propped up and driven by factors of race, place, gender, and sexuality.

Queer Atlantic examines the work of established writers - Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford - to reveal that anxieties surrounding white, masculine privilege and queer potential helped broaden the novel’s formal possibilities. Demonstrating how masculine mobility, and often specifically transatlantic mobility, both enacts and queerly disorients male privilege, Hannah places these writers in the context of debates about naval impressment, piracy, emigration, colonization, and the new imperialism. In the process he raises important questions about the current field of queer ethics, highlighting the strange companionship of queer openness to otherness and imperialist thought in modernist writing.

Arguing for the surprising resilience of such fictional structures, Queer Atlantic provides a new understanding of modernism’s emergence from a troubling of masculine privilege, mobility, and desire.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Country
Canada
Date
6 January 2021
Pages
240
ISBN
9780228005674

The instability of modernist form has everything to do with the social, political, and economic shakeups of the nineteenth century that left masculinity a site of contestation, racial anxiety, homophobic paranoia, performative display, and queer desire. Refusing to take white masculinity for granted, Daniel Hannah considers how the canonical novels of modernist fiction explore the ways that privilege is propped up and driven by factors of race, place, gender, and sexuality.

Queer Atlantic examines the work of established writers - Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford - to reveal that anxieties surrounding white, masculine privilege and queer potential helped broaden the novel’s formal possibilities. Demonstrating how masculine mobility, and often specifically transatlantic mobility, both enacts and queerly disorients male privilege, Hannah places these writers in the context of debates about naval impressment, piracy, emigration, colonization, and the new imperialism. In the process he raises important questions about the current field of queer ethics, highlighting the strange companionship of queer openness to otherness and imperialist thought in modernist writing.

Arguing for the surprising resilience of such fictional structures, Queer Atlantic provides a new understanding of modernism’s emergence from a troubling of masculine privilege, mobility, and desire.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Country
Canada
Date
6 January 2021
Pages
240
ISBN
9780228005674