Queer Victorian Families

Curious Relations in Literature

Duc Dau, Shale Preston

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English

Routledge
10 December 2019

Literary theory; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Regional studies; Cultural studies; Sociology

Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

"The Victorians elevated the home and heteronormative family life to an almost secular religion. Yet alongside the middle-class domestic ideal were other families, many of which existed in the literature of the time. Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature is chiefly concerned with these atypical or ""queer"" families. This collection serves as a corrective against limited definitions of family and is a timely addition to Victorian studies. Interdisciplinary in nature, the collection opens up new possibilities for uncovering submerged, marginalized, and alternative stories in Victorian literature. Broad in scope, subjects range from Count Fosco and his animal ""children"" in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, to male kinship within and across Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, and the nexus between disability and loving relationships in the fiction of Dinah Mulock Craik and Charlotte M. Yonge. Queer Victorian Families is a wide-ranging and theoretically adventurous exposé of the curious relations in the literary family tree."

Edited by: Duc Dau, Shale Preston
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367870133
ISBN 10: 0367870134
Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 10 December 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Duc Dau is an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia, Australia. Shale Preston is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of English at Macquarie University, Australia.