“More and More Fond of Reading”
Everything You Wanted to Know about Transgender Studies but Were Afraid to Ask Clara Reeve
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 20249013 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Desmond Huthwaite (University of Cambridge, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2021 |
| Volumen | 10 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 98 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2021-08-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787 |
| Editorial | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/h10030098 |
| OpenAlex | W3195727063 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 16 |
Clara Reeve’s (1729–1807) Gothic novel The Old English Baron is a node for contemplating two discursive exclusions. The novel, due to its own ambiguous status as a gendered “body”, has proven a difficult text for discourse on the Female Gothic to recognise. Subjected to a temperamental dialectic of reclamation and disavowal, The Old English Baron can be made to speak to the (often) subordinate position of Transgender Studies within the field of Queer Studies, another relationship predicated on the partial exclusion of undesirable elements. I treat the unlikely transness of Reeve’s body of text as an invitation to attempt a trans reading of the bodies within the text. Parallel to this, I develop an attachment genealogy of Queer and Transgender Studies that reconsiders essentialism―the kind both practiced by Female Gothic studies and also central to the logic of Reeve’s plot―as a fantasy that helps us distinguish where a trans reading can depart from a queer one, suggesting that the latter is methodologically limited by its own bad feelings towards the former
Aesthetics · Art · Dialectic · Epistemology · Feeling · Linguistics · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Transgender · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Gender Studies · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |