A01=Abigail Joseph
aesthetic landscapes
Author_Abigail Joseph
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Charles Worth
cultural aesthetic
drag
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history of drag
Jane Furneaux
material culture studies
material objects
nineteenth-century studies
Oscar Wilde
queer aesthetics
queer community
queer history
queer objects
queer studies
queer style
queer theory
victorian fashion
Victorian history
Victorian period
women's studies
Product details
- ISBN 9781644531693
- Weight: 481g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Nov 2019
- Publisher: University of Delaware Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Exquisite Materials explores the connections between gay subjects, material objects, and the social and aesthetic landscapes in which they circulated. Each of the book's four chapters takes up as a case study a figure or set of figures whose life and work dramatize different aspects of the unique queer relationship to materiality and style. These diverse episodes converge around the contention that paying attention to the multitudinous objects of the Victorian world-and to the social practices surrounding them-reveals the boundaries and influences of queer forms of identity and aesthetic sensibility that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century and have remained recognizable up to our own moment. In the cases that author Abigail Joseph examines, objects become unexpected sites of queer community and desire.
Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Abigail Joseph is a Senior Language Lecturer at New York University.
