| The Politics of Love: Queer Heterosexuality in Nineteenth-Century French Literature Contributor(s): Foerster, Maxime (Author) |
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ISBN: 1512601705 ISBN-13: 9781512601701 Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 305.407 |
| LCCN: 2018288672 |
| Series: Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What would love be if heterosexual couples were no longer assigned gender and sexual norms? Maxime Foerster examines the heterosexual trouble between men and women in nineteenth-century French Romantic and Decadent literature. Key works by authors ranging from George Sand to Charles Baudelaire persistently demonstrate that heterosexuality did not work: these authors, and many others, investigated the struggle that men and women alike waged against patriarchal norms. Whereas Romantic fiction dedicated itself to the reinvention of love, Decadence promoted sexual and gender deviance. In expertly evaluating the discord afflicting fictional heterosexual couples, male and female dandies, and doctors and their female patients, Foerster shows the crucial role that literature played in the fashioning of alternative identities. A concluding look at Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu traces the legacy of heterosexual trouble in the twentieth century. Hardcover is un-jacketed. |