LEADER 04955nam 22006375 450 001 9910568288603321 005 20230810174804.0 010 $a9783030970833$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783030970826 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-97083-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6992047 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6992047 035 $a(CKB)22444039500041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-97083-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)9922444039500041 100 $a20220516d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPoe, Queerness, and the End of Time /$fby Paul Christian Jones 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 207 pages) 225 1 $aAmerican Literature Readings in the 21st Century,$x2634-5803 311 08$aPrint version: Jones, Paul Christian Poe, Queerness, and the End of Time Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030970826 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction: Poe, Time, and Queerness -- 2. Resisting Reproduction in Poe?s Family Fictions: ?Morella,? ?Ligeia? and ?The Fall of the House of Usher? -- 3. ?My Evil Destiny?: The Queer Childhood and Queer Adulthood of William Wilson -- 4. Queer Spaces in ?The Masque of the Red Death? and the Dupin Mysteries -- 5. ?Nevermore!?: Non-Normative Desire and Queer Temporality in ?The Black Cat? and ?The Raven? -- 6. Epilogue: Poe?s Queer Afterlife: Revisiting ?The Masque of the Red Death? in the AIDS Era. 330 $aResourcefully adapting insights from recent queer theorists, Jones shifts the conversation on a queer Poe from sexuality to temporality, creating fresh, provocative perspectives on some of Poe?s most influential works. Jones exposes problematic heteronormative assumptions that have persistently structured Poe?s reception, with broader implications for how we read other nineteenth-century American authors. --Carl Ostrowski, Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University and editor of Collected Tales, Poems, and Other Writings of Edgar Allan Poe (Bloomsbury 2021) Jones establishes, definitively, the validity of considering Poe as a queer author. Indeed, future studies will have to make a strong case about why we should not read Poe as queer. This galvanizing book is most welcome.--David Greven, Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and author of Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature This book builds upon recent theoretical approaches that define queerness as more of a temporal orientation than a sexual one to explore how Edgar Allan Poe's literary works were frequently invested in imagining lives that contemporary readers can understand as queer, as they stray outside of or aggressively reject normative life paths, including heterosexual romance, marriage, and reproduction, and emphasize individuals' present desires over future plans. The book's analysis of many of Poe's best-known works, including "The Raven," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Black Cat," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," show that his attraction to the liberation of queerness is accompanied by demonstrations of extreme anxiety about the potentially terrifying consequences of non-normative choices. While Poe never resolved the conflicts in his thinking, this book argues that this compelling imaginative tension between queerness and temporal normativity is crucial to understanding his canon. Paul Christian Jones is Professor of English at Ohio University, USA, and the author of two books, Unwelcome Voices: Subversive Fiction in the Antebellum South (2005) and Against the Gallows: Antebellum American Writers and the Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment (2011). 410 0$aAmerican Literature Readings in the 21st Century,$x2634-5803 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x19th century 606 $aSex 606 $aInterpretation, Literary 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aGender Studies 606 $aLiterary Interpretation 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x19th century. 615 0$aSex. 615 0$aInterpretation, Literary. 615 14$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aGender Studies. 615 24$aLiterary Interpretation. 676 $a813.3 676 $a813.3 700 $aJones$b Paul C.$f1969-$01100532 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910568288603321 996 $aPoe, queerness, and the end of time$92985736 997 $aUNINA