Politics of Love

258 Pages·1.305 MB·English

by  Foerster

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Becoming Modern
new nineteenth- century studies
General Editor
Sarah Way Sherman, Department of English
University of New Hampshire
Associate Editors
Janet Aikins Yount, Department of English
University of New Hampshire
Rohan McWilliam, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England
Janet Polasky, Department of History
University of New Hampshire
This book series maps the complexity of historical change and assesses the
formation of ideas, movements, and institutions crucial to our own time by
publishing books that examine the emergence of modernity in North America
and Europe. Set primarily but not exclusively in the nineteenth century, the series
shifts attention from modernity’s twentieth- century forms to its earlier moments
of uncertain and often disputed construction. Seeking books of interest to scholars
on both sides of the Atlantic, it thereby encourages the expansion of nineteenth-
century studies and the exploration of more global patterns of development.
For a complete list of books available in this series, see www.upne.com
Maxime Foerster, The Politics of Love: Queer Heterosexuality
in Nineteenth- Century French Literature
Katie McGettigan, Herman Melville: Modernity and the Material Text
Mary Kathleen Eyring, Captains of Charity: The Writing and Wages
of Postrevolutionary Atlantic Benevolence
Beth L. Lueck, Sirpa Salenius, and Nancy Lusignan Schultz, editors,
Transatlantic Conversations: Nineteenth- Century American Women’s Encounters
with Italy and the Atlantic World
Lisa Ottum and Seth T. Reno, editors, Wordsworth and the Green Romantics:
Aff ect and Ecology in the Nineteenth Century
Melody Davis, Women’s Views: The Narrative Stereograph
in Nineteenth- Century America
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University of
New Hampshire
Press
Durham, New
Hampshire
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Parts of chapter 5 appeared in “A New Catalogue of Perversions:
Sexology and Decadence,” in Guri Barstad and Karen P. Knutsen, eds.,
States of Decadence: On the Aesthetics of Beauty, Decline and
Transgression across Time and Space (Newcastle, UK:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016), 266–79.
For permission to reproduce any of the material in this book,
contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
available upon request
Hardcover isbn: 978-1-5126-0169-5
Paperback isbn: 978-1-5126-0170-1
Ebook isbn: 978-1-5126-0171-8
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