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Summary:

"How can we talk about analogies drawn by fiction between geographical, erotic, and formal mobility? What does it mean when a male character's movements resemble both a privileged kind of wandering and queerly suggestive cruising? Or when a male protagonist's sexual magnetism becomes a force for both social disorder and imperialist expansion? In this analysis of works by five British and American authors, Daniel Hannah examines how masculine mobility--and often specifically transatlantic mobility--both enacts and queerly disorients male privilege, even as that same mobility works as a kind of unstable master trope behind the restless experimentation of modernist fiction. Where the "new modernist studies" has sought to diversify the canon, Queer Atlantic addresses established writers (Melville, Stevenson, James, Conrad, and Ford), arguing for the significance of anxieties about white, masculine privilege and queer potential to their broadening of the novel's formal possibilities. Hannah places these writers in the context of their responses to debates about naval impressment, piracy, emigration, colonization, and the "new imperialism." In the process, he also raises significant questions about the current field of queer ethics, highlighting the strange companionship of queer openness to otherness and imperialist thought for modernist writing. Turning, in its final pages, to examine the surprising resilience of such fictional structures for a more diverse set of American writers after World War One, Queer Atlantic opens out a new understanding of modernism's emergence from a troubling of masculine privilege, mobility, and desire."-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Impressed Into Service: Mobilizing Desire In Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor
• 2. Queer Wanderings: Transatlantic Piracy And Narrative Seduction In Robert Louis Stevenson's The Master Of Ballantrae
• 3. "A Question Of An Imperium": Queer Imperialisms In Henry James's The Golden Bowl
• 4. Tale Of The Seaboard: Erotic Geographies And Interstitial Masculinities In Joseph Conrad's Nostromo
• 5. "Those Queer Effects Of Real Life": Impressionism, Desire, And The Transatlantic In Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier.

Author/Creator:

Hannah, Daniel , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Queer Atlantic: masculinity, mobility, and the emergence of modernist form [by Hannah, D.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Queer Atlantic [by Hannah, D.] (Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021 — ISBN 0228005663; ISBN 9780228005667)

Subjects:

Masculinity in literature

Homosexuality in literature

Gay men in literature

Desire in literature

Imperialism in literature

Comparative literature — American and English

Comparative literature — English and American

American literature — 20th century — History and criticism

English literature — 20th century — History and criticism

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 18, 2021).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

PN56.M316 H36 2021eb

ISBNs:

9780228006046 (electronic book)
022800604X (electronic book)
9780228006039 (electronic book)
0228006031 (electronic book)

OCLC Numbers:

1195707975

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6462052 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp301895021