By Holly Furneaux
male nurses. It explores Dickens's recognition to a longing, to not reproduce, yet to nurture, his curiosity in therapeutic contact, and his articulation, over the process his profession, of homoerotic desire.
Holly Furneaux areas Dickens's writing in a huge literary and social context, along authors together with Bulwer-Lytton, Tennyson, Braddon, Collins, and Whitman, to make a case for Dickens's crucial place in queer literary background. analyzing novels, poetry, life-writing, journalism, and felony and political debates, Queer Dickens argues that this eminent Victorian can direct us to the ways that his tradition may perhaps, and did, conveniently accommodate homoeroticism and households of
choice. additional, it contends that Dickens's portrayals of nurturing masculinity and his crisis with contact and have an effect on among males problem what we have now been used to brooding about Victorian beliefs of maleness.
Queer Dickens intervenes in present debates in regards to the Victorians (neither so punitive nor so prudish as we as soon as imagined) and in regards to the methodologies of the histories of the kinfolk and of sexuality. It makes the case for a extra confident, nurturing, and life-affirming trajectory in queer theory.
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