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Queer Dickens [electronic resource] : erotics, families, masculinities /

by Furneaux, Holly.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009Description: 1 online resource (282 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780191721915 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation | Queer theory | Gender identity in literature | Sex role in literatureOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Furneaux offers a new reading of Dickens. She argues that rather than representing a largely conventional view of sexuality and gender his corpus is distinctly queer, displaying a fascination with the diversity of gender roles, the expandability of notions of the family and the multiplicity of sexual desire.
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Furneaux offers a new reading of Dickens. She argues that rather than representing a largely conventional view of sexuality and gender his corpus is distinctly queer, displaying a fascination with the diversity of gender roles, the expandability of notions of the family and the multiplicity of sexual desire.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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