The queerness of water : troubled ecologies in the eighteenth century / Jeremy Chow.
"The Queerness of Water reconsiders canonical long eighteenth-century narratives through the conjoined lenses of queer studies and the environmental humanities. Moving from Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels to Gothic novels including Mary Shelley’s Frankenst...
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Under the sign of nature.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: What's Queer about Water?
- 1. Taken by Storm
- Intermezzo: Teaching Wreckage in Rising Waters
- 2. See Monkeys -Intermezzo: Reading Swift on the Planet of the Apes
- 3. Aqueous Punishment
- Intermezzo: Off with Her Head
- 4. Sacrif-Ice
- Intermezzo: Freeze!
- Conclusion: Sea Monsters