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Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature

- Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville

Über Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature

Expanding our understanding of the possibilities and challenges inherent in the expression of same-sex desire before the Civil War, David Greven identifies a pattern of what he calls ΓÇÖgender protestΓÇÖ and sexual possibility recurring in antebellum works. He suggests that major authors such as Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne consciously sought to represent same-sex desire in their writings. Focusing especially on conceptions of the melancholia of gender identification and shame, Greven argues that same-sex desire was inextricably enmeshed in scenes of gender-role strain, as exemplified in the extent to which The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym depicts masculine identity adrift and in disarray. Greven finds similarly compelling representations of gender protest in FullerΓÇÖs exploration of the crisis of gendered identity in Summer on the Lakes, in MelvilleΓÇÖs representation of RedburnΓÇÖs experience of gender nonconformity, and in HawthorneΓÇÖs complicated delineation of desire in The Scarlet Letter. As Greven shows, antebellum authors not only took up the taboo subjects of same-sex desire and female sexuality, but were adept in their use of a variety of rhetorical means for expressing the inexpressible.

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  • Sprache:
  • Englisch
  • ISBN:
  • 9781138273719
  • Einband:
  • Taschenbuch
  • Seitenzahl:
  • 258
  • Veröffentlicht:
  • 26. August 2016
  • Abmessungen:
  • 234x159x21 mm.
  • Gewicht:
  • 402 g.
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Expanding our understanding of the possibilities and challenges inherent in the expression of same-sex desire before the Civil War, David Greven identifies a pattern of what he calls ΓÇÖgender protestΓÇÖ and sexual possibility recurring in antebellum works. He suggests that major authors such as Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne consciously sought to represent same-sex desire in their writings. Focusing especially on conceptions of the melancholia of gender identification and shame, Greven argues that same-sex desire was inextricably enmeshed in scenes of gender-role strain, as exemplified in the extent to which The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym depicts masculine identity adrift and in disarray. Greven finds similarly compelling representations of gender protest in FullerΓÇÖs exploration of the crisis of gendered identity in Summer on the Lakes, in MelvilleΓÇÖs representation of RedburnΓÇÖs experience of gender nonconformity, and in HawthorneΓÇÖs complicated delineation of desire in The Scarlet Letter. As Greven shows, antebellum authors not only took up the taboo subjects of same-sex desire and female sexuality, but were adept in their use of a variety of rhetorical means for expressing the inexpressible.

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