The Politics of Love: Queer Heterosexuality in Nineteenth-Century French Literature

by Maxime Foerster

What would love be if heterosexual couples were no longer assigned gender and sexual norms?

Maxime Foerster examines the "heterosexual trouble" between men and women in nineteenth-century French Romantic and Decadent literature. Key works by authors ranging from George Sand to Charles Baudelaire persistently demonstrate that heterosexuality did not work: these authors, and many others, investigated the struggle that men and women alike waged...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512601705
• ISBN13: 9781512601701
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"