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Cruising modernism : class and sexuality in American literature and social thought /

"Modern society, Michael Trask argues in this book, chose to couch class difference in terms of illicit sexuality. Trask demonstrates how sexual science's concept of erotic perversion mediated the writing of both literary figures and social theorists when it came to the innovative and unse...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Trask, Michael, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2003.
Temas:
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Modern society, Michael Trask argues in this book, chose to couch class difference in terms of illicit sexuality. Trask demonstrates how sexual science's concept of erotic perversion mediated the writing of both literary figures and social theorists when it came to the innovative and unsettling social arrangements of the early twentieth century." "Viewing class as a restless and unstable category, Trask contends, American modernist writers appropriated sexology's concept of evasive, unmoored desire to account for the seismic shift in social relations during the Progressive era and beyond. Looking closely at the fraught ideological space between real and perceived class differences, Cruising Modernism discloses there a pervasive representation of sexuality as well."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 222 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-215) and index.
ISBN:9781501717475
1501717472