Jonathan Goldberg: 33 books
by Jonathan Goldberg, Michèle Aina Barale, Michael Moon
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2001
After many years as one of the premier scholars of English Renaissance literature, Jonathan Goldberg turns his attention to the work of American novelist Willa Cather. With a focus on Cather’s artistic principle of “the thing not named,” Willa Cather and Others illuminates the contradictions...
Melodrama
An Aesthetics of Impossibility
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Offering a new queer theorization of melodrama, Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways melodramatic film and literature provide an aesthetics of impossibility. Focused on the notion of what Douglas Sirk termed the "impossible situation" in melodrama, such as impasses in sexual relations that...
The Limits to Union
Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Revised and updated to include the most current information on same-sex marriage, The Limits to Union documents a legal struggle at its moment of greatest historical importance.
"The Limits to Union is a superb book about the complexities of recent political struggles over same-sex marriage....
Strangers on a Train
A Queer Film Classic
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 thriller based on the novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith (author of The Talented Mr. Ripley) is about two men who meet on a train: one is a man of high social standing who wishes to divorce his unfaithful wife; the other is an enigmatic bachelor with an overbearing...
Novel Gazing
Queer Readings in Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Novel Gazing is the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. The contributors to this volume navigate new territory in literary theory with essays that implicitly challenge the "hermeneutic of suspicion" widespread in current critical theory. In a stunning introductory...
After Sex?
On Writing since Queer Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Since queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken up by scholars across the humanities and social sciences. In After Sex? prominent contributors to the development of queer studies offer personal reflections on the field’s history, accomplishments,...
Never Say I
Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2006
Never Say I reveals the centrality of representations of sexuality, and particularly same-sex sexual relations, to the evolution of literary prose forms in twentieth-century France. Rethinking the social and literary innovation of works by Marcel Proust, André Gide, and Colette, Michael Lucey considers...
by Didier Eribon, Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2004
A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an extraordinary set of reflections on “the gay question” by Didier Eribon, one of France’s foremost public intellectuals. Known internationally as the author of a pathbreaking biography of Michel...
This Distracted Globe
Worldmaking in Early Modern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Worldmaking takes many forms in early modern literature and thus challenges any single interpretive approach. The essays in this collection investigate the material stuff of the world in Spenser, Cary, and Marlowe; the sociable bonds of authorship, sexuality, and sovereignty in Shakespeare and others;...
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay
Personal Essays, Public Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2000
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay is the intellectual autobiography of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. Chronicling the development of her ideas from the excitement of early feminism in the 1960s to friendly critiques of queer theory in the 1990s, this collection...
The Un-Americans
Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory sycophancy, in which the good citizen is an informer, ready to denounce anyone who will not play the part...
by Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1993
Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and...
Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame
Where “Black” Meets “Queer”
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
Shame, Kathryn Bond Stockton argues in Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame, has often been a meeting place for the signs “black” and “queer” and for black and queer people—overlapping groups who have been publicly marked as degraded and debased. But when and why have certain forms of shame...
No Future
Queer Theory and the Death Drive
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of “reproductive futurism.” Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence...