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Monumental anxieties : homoerotic desire and feminine influence in 19th century U.S. literature / Sc...

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Monumental anxieties : homoerotic desire and feminine influence in 19th century U.S. literature / Sc...

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Monumental anxieties : homoerotic desire and feminine influence in 19th century U.S. literature / Scott S. Derrick. [electronic resource]

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Full title

Monumental anxieties : homoerotic desire and feminine influence in 19th century U.S. literature / Scott S. Derrick. [electronic resource]

Publisher

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1997.

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BOOK

Record Identifier

74VK3y7qaejO

MMS ID

991023912659502626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

1 online resource (xii, 259 p. ) ill. ;

Content type

text

Media type

computer

Carrier type

online resource

Contents

Introduction: Authoring the Self: Gender, Identity, and Authorial Self-Construction in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Culture -- pt. 1. Purloined Letters: The Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. 1. Gender and the Scene of Writing: Homophobia, the Feminine, and Narrative in Nathaniel Hawthor...

Publication information

Publisher

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1997.

Place of Publication

New Jersey

Date Published

c1997.

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Summary

"Recent gender-based scholarship on nineteenth-century American literature has established male authors' crucial awareness of the competition from popular women writers. Critical work in gay studies and queer theory has stressed the importance in canonical American literature of homoerotic relations between men, even before "homosexuality" became c...

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Full title

Monumental anxieties : homoerotic desire and feminine influence in 19th century U.S. literature / Scott S. Derrick. [electronic resource]

Variant title

BOOK

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Notes

General note

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-248) and index.

Language note

English

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Date Copyright

c1997.

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Record Identifier

74VK3y7qaejO

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3y7qaejO

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ISBN

0-585-11640-7

0-8135-8569-4

DDC

813/.309353

MMS ID

991023912659502626

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