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Outlaw fathers in Victorian and modern British literature : queering patriarchy /

Outlaw Fathers provides an innovative reading of fatherhood and father-son relationships in a number of Victorian and modern literary texts. In addition to using an inventive psychoanalytic paradigm for redefining, or queering, the concept of patriarchy in literary studies and theory, it joins a lar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gurfinkel, Helena (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison : Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Rowman and Littlefield, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : From the law of the father to the outlaw father
  • Theoretical genealogies
  • "The intercourse between the squire and his son" : the father-son marriage plot and the creation of the English gentleman in Anthony Trollope's novels
  • Sons as lovers : the queer Künstlerroman in Samuel Butler's The way of all flesh, Henry James's "The lesson of the master," and J.R. Ackerley's My father and myself
  • "A father's place is in the kitchen, dear" : male domesticity and motherhood in E.M. Forster's "Little Imber" and Alan Hollinghurst's The spell
  • Coda : The "p-word" : queer patriarchy beyond maleness and nation.