Swift's Queer Camp
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21789789 |
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| Authors | Ula Lukszo Klein (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 293-302 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-0194 • E-ISSN: 1754-0208 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1754-0208.12705 |
| OpenAlex | W3040851251 |
| Language | EN |
While many have read Swift's poems as displaying misogyny against women and against the tools women use for beautification, this article argues that Swift's dressing‐room poems offer a more nuanced reading of this process and the women involved. This article contends that ‘The Progress of Beauty’ (1719), ‘A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed’ (1731) and ‘The Lady’s Dressing Room’ (1732) are poems of feminine decomposition which are ultimately about the embracing of abjection and disgust and questioning heteronormative ideals of purity. The language of hyperbole suggests a camp element to these women, queering the aesthetics of the abject
Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Hyperbole · Literature · Metaphor · Poetry · Queer · Sociology · Swift · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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