Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature: Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville
- ISBN-10
- 1409469921
- ISBN-13
- 9781409469926
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 252
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-03-28
- Publisher
- Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
- Author
- Dr David Greven
Description
Expanding our understanding of the possibilities and challenges inherent in the expression of same-sex desire, Greven identifies a pattern of what he calls ‘gender protest’ in the writings of Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. As Greven shows, antebellum authors took up the taboo subjects of same-sex desire and female sexuality and were adept in their use of a variety of rhetorical means for expressing the inexpressible.
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