The Queerness of Water
Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century
University of Virginia Press · Print & ebook · June 26, 2023
This highly original book reconsiders canonical long eighteenth-century narratives through the conjoined lenses of queer studies and the environmental humanities.
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- Who it’s for
- Water reframes canonical eighteenth-century narratives through queer and environmental critical lenses.
- Genres
- 18th Century Literature, Queer Literary Criticism, Nature in Literature
- Published
- University of Virginia Press, June 26, 2023
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This highly original book reconsiders canonical long eighteenth-century narratives through the conjoined lenses of queer studies and the environmental humanities. Moving from Daniel Defoe?s Robinson Crusoe and Jonathan Swift?s Gulliver?s Travels to Gothic novels including Mary Shelley?s Frankenstein, Jeremy Chow investigates the role that bodies of water play in reading these central texts. Chow navigates various representations and phases of water to magnify the element?
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s furtive yet pronounced effects on narrative, theory, and identity. Water, Chow reveals, is both a participant and a stage upon which bodily violation manifests. The sea, rivers, pools, streams, and glaciers all participate in a violent decolonialism that fractures, revises, and reshapes notions of colonial masculinity emerging throughout the long eighteenth century. Through an innovative series of intermezzi, The Queerness of Water also traces the afterlives of eighteenth-century literature in late twentienth- and twenty-first-century film, television, and other popular media, opening up conversations regarding canon, literary criticism, pedagogy, and climate change.
Water in the Canon
Water reframes canonical eighteenth-century narratives through queer and environmental critical lenses.
Come here for
- Read water across Defoe, Swift, and Mary Shelley
- Trace literary afterlives in film, television, and popular media
Expect
- Water as both participant and stage for bodily violation
- Decolonialism reshaping colonial masculinity in the long eighteenth century
Where it sits
| Queer Literary Criticism | 79% |
|---|---|
| Nature in Literature | 64% |
| 18th Century Literature | 47% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Queer Literary Criticism
- Comics & Graphic Novel Criticism
- 18th Century Literature
- How Media Works
- Authors
- Jeremy Chow
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Published
- June 26, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Queer Literary Criticism