Queer/Early/Modern

by Carla Freccero

In Queer/Early/Modern, Carla Freccero, a leading scholar of early modern European studies, argues for a reading practice that accounts for the queerness of temporality, for the way past, present, and future time appear out of sequence and in dialogue in our thinking about history and texts. Freccero takes issue with New Historicist accounts of sexual identity that claim to respect historical proprieties and to derive identity categories from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822336901
• ISBN13: 9780822336907
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.6"