Echoes of a Queer Messianic: From Frankenstein to Brokeback Mountain

by Richard O Block

Queer theory has focused heavily on North American and contemporary contexts, but in this book Richard O. Block helps to expand that reach. Deftly combining the two main currents of recent queer theory, the asocial and the reparative, he reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800, while relating his findings to recent texts such as A Lover's Discourse and Brokeback Mountain. He offers novel readings of well-known texts by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438469543
• ISBN13: 9781438469546
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"