Poe, Queerness, and the End of Time
The book's analysis of many of Poe's best-known works, including "The Raven," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Black Cat," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," show that his attraction to the liberation...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
| Series: | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Poe, Time, and Queerness
- 2. Resisting Reproduction in Poe’s Family Fictions: “Morella,” “Ligeia” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”
- 3. “My Evil Destiny”: The Queer Childhood and Queer Adulthood of William Wilson
- 4. Queer Spaces in “The Masque of the Red Death” and the Dupin Mysteries
- 5. “Nevermore!”: Non-Normative Desire and Queer Temporality in “The Black Cat” and “The Raven”
- 6. Epilogue: Poe’s Queer Afterlife: Revisiting “The Masque of the Red Death” in the AIDS Era