Series Editor Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Henry James's Animal Encounters
Chapter 2: Oscar Wilde's Messy Messianism
Chapter 3: Forster's Queer Invitation
Chapter 4: The Invitation's Success
Chapter 5: Cather's Survival By Suicide
Coda
Benjamin Bateman, Lecturer in English Literature, University of
Edinburgh
Benjamin Bateman is a lecturer in English Literature at the
University of Edinburgh, where he teaches modern and contemporary
literature and gender and sexuality studies. He previously taught
and served as the director of The Center for the Study of Genders
and Sexualities at California State University, Los Angeles.
"The Modernist Art of Queer Survival is an invigorating book, and
one that will endure. Queer theory has a future, and this is the
kind of work that makes scholars want to be a part of it." --
Hannah Roche, Modern Language Review
"Bringing foundational perspectives on queer theory to bear on late
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature, Bateman
delivers a monograph that is equally informed by the historical and
the theoretical, the aesthetic and the philosophical. It is a work
of depth and insight, and a profound contribution not only to
modernist studies, but also to forms of queer theory that could
reap substantial rewards from the kind of modernist literary
perspective
through which Bateman stages the terms of his argument." -- The
Year's Work in English Studies
"An astute contribution to queer, modernist, and eco-criticism, The
Modernist Art of Queer Survival offers a powerful alternative to
the tendency in much queer theory to disclaim futurity. Through
readings of James, Wilde, Forster, and Cather, Benjamin Bateman
mounts a convincing counter-argument for 'queer survival' as future
possibility: an embracing of the disruptions of self that occur
upon inviting the unexpected to enter and become part of
oneself. It is here in the kind of future Bateman proposes, where
the concept of queer survival can expose the elastic contours of
life and dissolve the boundaries between the animate and
inanimate." -- Joseph Boone,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
"Bringing impressive nuance to queer debates about temporality,
which sometimes seem to insist in overly stark terms that queerness
exists only in an unrealized future or in no future at all,
Benjamin Bateman helps us recognize the dignity and creativity
involved in the quotidian work of hanging on and letting go that
constitutes queer survival. In a series of brilliant readings of
modernist texts, his study disentangles survival from normative
ideologies of
success and sovereignty, demonstrating the ways that Oscar Wilde,
Henry James, E. M. Forster, and Willa Cather ask us to rethink
survival in terms of weakness, frangibility, and porousness. The
result is
a work of remarkable intelligence and ethical urgency, a vibrant
resource not only for students of modernism and queer studies but
for all of us trying to improvise our way into an uncertain
future." -- Brian Glavey, University of South Carolina
"Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and
above." --A. J. Barlow, CHOICE
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