Cruising modernism: class and sexuality in American literature and social thought

"Modern society, Michael Trask argues in this book, chose to couch class difference in terms of illicit sexuality. Trask demonstrates how sexual science's concept of erotic perversion mediated the writing of both literary figures and social theorists when it came to the innovative and unse...

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Main Author: Trask, Michael (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [u.a.] Cornell Univ. Press 2003
Edition:1. publ.
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Online Access:Table of contents
Summary:"Modern society, Michael Trask argues in this book, chose to couch class difference in terms of illicit sexuality. Trask demonstrates how sexual science's concept of erotic perversion mediated the writing of both literary figures and social theorists when it came to the innovative and unsettling social arrangements of the early twentieth century." "Viewing class as a restless and unstable category, Trask contends, American modernist writers appropriated sexology's concept of evasive, unmoored desire to account for the seismic shift in social relations during the Progressive era and beyond. Looking closely at the fraught ideological space between real and perceived class differences, Cruising Modernism discloses there a pervasive representation of sexuality as well."--BOOK JACKET.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-215) and index
Physical Description:VIII, 222 S.
ISBN:0801441706

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