Reading sideways : the queer politics of art in modern American fiction /
Author / Creator: | Seitler, Dana, author. |
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Edition: | First edition. |
Imprint: | New York : Fordham University Press, 2019. ©2019 |
Description: | vii, 195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11925613 |
Summary: | Reading Sideways explores the pivotal role that various art forms played in American literary fiction in direct relation to the politics of gender and sexuality in works of modern American literature. It tracks the crosswise circulation of aesthetic ideas in fiction and argues that at stake in the aesthetic turn of these works was not only the theorization of aesthetic experience but also an engagement with political arguments and debates about available modes of sociability and sexual expression. To track these engagements, its author, Dana Seitler, performs a method she calls "lateral reading," a mode of interpretation that moves horizontally through various historical entanglements and across the fields of the arts to make sense of--and see in a new light--their connections, challenges, and productive frictions. |
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Physical Description: | vii, 195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780823282616 0823282619 |