{"product_id":"modernism-s-queer-parents","title":"Modernism’s Queer Parents","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume offers the first critical examination of how societal pressures compelling individuals towards parenthood are experienced, processed, and enacted by queer characters in selected works by Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust—authors now widely regarded as queer, despite not having claimed such an identity in their own time. The selected texts include Mann’s \u003ci\u003eChaotic World and Childhood Sorrow\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDeath in Venice\u003c\/i\u003e, Woolf’s \u003ci\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOrlando\u003c\/i\u003e, and key sections from Proust’s \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e. By engaging these texts in a pairwise dialogue, this book argues that Mann, Woolf, and Proust employ a shared repertoire of motifs and narrative strategies to depict queer characters’ struggles with the institution of parenthood. However, it contends that each author articulates a distinct and nuanced approach to this theme, shaped in part by the specific cultural contexts in which they wrote. To substantiate this argument, the monograph draws on insights from queer theory, metaphor theory, and the social sciences, predominantly from late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century scholarship, thereby reinforcing its commitment to linking literary modernism to contemporary lived realities. At the same time, the analysis situates these works within the broader socio-historical framework of the early twentieth century, which is to say the modernist period, with which these authors are conventionally associated.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55285771796824,"sku":"9781041121855","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781041121855.jpg?v=1768413621","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/modernism-s-queer-parents","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}