{"title":"Exfoliating modernist realism: Carpenter, Darwin, and Forster","authors":"Sam See, S. Herring, Heather K. Love, W. Moffat","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823286980.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823286980.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Forster’s 1914 novel Maurice offers an exemplary instance of modernist realism. The novel offers an experimental depiction of nature as the model for democratic socialism. This depiction of nature is founded on the principle of love, especially non-normative love like homosexuality.","PeriodicalId":359811,"journal":{"name":"Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123471354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Charles Darwin, queer theorist","authors":"Sam See, S. Herring, Heather K. Love, W. Moffat","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvsf1qwg.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvsf1qwg.4","url":null,"abstract":"Darwin conceptualizes nature as a non-normative, infinitely heterogeneous composite of mutating laws and principles. Contextualizing queer literature within a Darwinian framework presents opportunities to reassess contemporary literary histories of modernism that oppose modernist aesthetics, positivist science, and theoretical orthodoxies about the conceptual dangers of nature.","PeriodicalId":359811,"journal":{"name":"Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133047983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Art for science’s sake: Wilde in Whitman’s wilderness","authors":"Sam See, S. Herring, Heather K. Love, W. Moffat","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823286980.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823286980.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Wilde’s affection for Whitman reveals an overlooked strain of nature-based queer aesthetics not only in Wilde’s writing but in the literary modernist era that both Whitman and Wilde are often considered to anticipate. Such aesthetics are rooted in two evolutionary scientific principles: first, that nature is infinitely mutable; and second, that sexual feeling is aesthetic feeling grounded in the material world.","PeriodicalId":359811,"journal":{"name":"Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133474835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The ancients and the queer moderns","authors":"S. Herring","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvsf1qwg.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvsf1qwg.14","url":null,"abstract":"See performs a revivification of queer modernist studies that connects up with ancient times.","PeriodicalId":359811,"journal":{"name":"Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies","volume":"95 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113961490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}