Queer Kinship After Wilde: Transnational Decadence and the Family

ISBN-13: 9781316519912 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

KRISTIN MAHONEY

Opis

Focuses on figures who saw themselves as part of a Decadent tradition as they revised the concept of the family in the early 20th century.

Spis treści

Part I. Queering Kinship/Kinship as Queer Politics: 1. The son of Oscar Wilde: Cosmopolitanism and textual kinship; 2. “Out and out from the family to the community”: The Housmans and the politics of queer sibling devotion; Part II. Queer retreat and cosmopolitan community: 3. An extraordinary marriage: The Mackenzies and the queer cosmopolitanism of Capri; 4. Bachelorhood and transnational adoption: Harold Acton in China; Part III. Decadent Modernism and Eroticized Kinship: 5. Richard Bruce Nugent's 'Geisha Man': Harlem decadence, multiraciality, and incest fantasy; 6. Hallowed incest: Eric Gill, Indian aesthetics, and queer Catholicism.