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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2022
      October 2022
      ISBN:
      9781009019682
      9781316519912
      9781009011501
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009019682
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.55kg, 300 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 300 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Literary Theory, English Literature 1900-1945
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    Queer Kinship after Wilde investigates the afterlife of the Decadent Movement's ideas about kinship, desire, and the family during the modernist period within a global context. Drawing on archival materials, including diaries, correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, and photograph albums, it tells the story of individuals with ties to late-Victorian Decadence and Oscar Wilde who turned to the fin-de-siècle past for inspiration as they attempted to operate outside the heteronormative boundaries restricting the practice of marriage and the family. These post-Victorian Decadents and Decadent modernists engaged in translation, travel, and transnational collaboration in pursuit of different models of connection that might facilitate their disentanglement from conventional sexual and gender ideals. Queer Kinship after Wilde attends to the successes and failures that resulted from these experiments, the new approaches to affiliation inflected by a cosmopolitan or global perspective that occurred within these networks as well as the practices marked by Decadence's troubling patterns of Orientalism and racial fetishism.

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    Honourable Mention, NAVSA Book Prize

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    ‘… brilliantly readable … In this cultural history, Mahoney attends to all manner of cultural productions, not merely to literature or visual art. In reading this book, moreover, we experience a sense of intimacy with many of these figures…’

    Gregory Mackie Source: Victorian Studies

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