Joseph Allen Boone

According to scholar Joseph Allen Boone, modern fiction with its strong currents of sexuality creates a poetics of the perverse with the power to influence how we think. Challenging common theories, Boone constructs a model for interpreting sexuality that reaches from Freud's theory of the libidinal instincts to Foucault's theory of sexual discourse. A landmark work in the study of modernist fiction and the study of sexuality and gender.

Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism

Libidinal Currents

Love and the Form of Fiction

Tradition Counter Tradition

Martin Dupuis

Debra Silverman

Karin Quimby

Martin Meeker

Cindy Sarver

Rosemary Weatherston

From the history of gay and lesbian studies to the emergence of video bars, from an interview with Cherrie Moraga to a photo record of 1950s gay Los Angeles these essays tackle the past, present and future of gay sexuality from all directions.

Millennial Geographies, Genders, and Generations

Queer Frontiers

Joseph A. Boone

From Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf to William Faulkner and Doris Lessing, modern fiction surges with libidinal currents. The most powerful of these fictions are not merely about sex; rather, they attempt to incorporate the workings of eros into their narrative forms. In doing so, Joseph Allen Boone argues, these modern fictions of sexuality create a politics and poetics of the perverse with the power to transform how we think about and read modernism. Challenging overarching theories of the novel by carefully mapping the historical contexts that have influenced modern experimental narratives, Boone constructs a model for interpreting sexuality that reaches from Freud's theory of the libidinal instincts to Foucault's theory of sexual discourse. The most ambitious study yet written on the links between literary modernity and the psychology of sex, Boone's Libidinal Currents will be a landmark book in the study of modernist fiction, gay studies/queer theory, feminist criticism, and studies in sexuality and gender.

Joseph Allen Boone

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