This thesis argues that Oscar Wilde anticipates Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s concept of reparative reading. In 2003’s Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity, Sedgwick argues that the hermeneutics of suspicion–whereby the reader exposes the unjust power structures lying be…
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Whether we speak of queer bodies targeted for harassment, queer sensibilities derided as dangerous, or queer intimacies denied legitimacy, we acknowledge a close companionship between queerness and precariousness. Queerness remains continuously under threat; these threats to sur…
The Modernist Art of Queer Survival explores an archive of modernist archive of modernist literature that conceives survival as a collective enterprise linking lives across boundaries of race, time, class, species, gender, and sexuality. As social Darwinism promoted a selfish, c…
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