Imaginative Resistance, Queer Fiction and the Law: Same-Sex Desire and the Good Life in Heteronormative Orders

ISBN-13: 9781032037479 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 176 str.

Aleardo Zanghellini

Opis

This book provides a novel account of how heteronormative socio-legal orders affect the well-being, or quality of life, of same-sex attracted people.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Imaginative Resistance in and beyond Fiction 2. Same-Sex Desire in Britain and the United States, Circa 1946-1961 3. Charles Jackson’s The Fall of Valor (1946) 4. Gillian Freeman’s The Leather Boys (1961) 5. Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt (1952) and The Talented Mr Ripley (1955) Conclusions

O autorze

Aleardo Zanghellini, Professor of Law and Social Theory, University of Reading, UK