Queer Kinship after Wilde investigates the afterlife of the Decadent Movement's ideas about kinship, desire, and the family during the modernist period within a global context. Drawing on archival materials, including diaries, correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, and photograph albums, it tells the story of individuals with ties to late-Victorian Decadence and Oscar Wilde who turned to the fin-de-sičcle past for inspiration as they attempted to operate outside the heteronormative boundaries restricting the practice of marriage and the family. These post-Victorian Decadents and Decadent modernists engaged in translation, travel, and transnational collaboration in pursuit of different models of connection that might facilitate their disentanglement from conventional sexual and gender ideals. Queer Kinship after Wilde attends to the successes and failures that resulted from these experiments, the new approaches to affiliation inflected by a cosmopolitan or global perspective that occurred within these networks as well as the practices marked by Decadence's troubling patterns of Orientalism and racial fetishism.
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Focuses on figures who saw themselves as part of a Decadent tradition as they revised the concept of the family in the early 20th century.
Part I. Queering Kinship/Kinship as Queer Politics:
1. The son of Oscar
Wilde: Cosmopolitanism and textual kinship;
2. Out and out from the family
to the community: The Housmans and the politics of queer sibling devotion;
Part II. Queer retreat and cosmopolitan community:
3. An extraordinary
marriage: The Mackenzies and the queer cosmopolitanism of Capri;
4.
Bachelorhood and transnational adoption: Harold Acton in China; Part III.
Decadent Modernism and Eroticized Kinship:
5. Richard Bruce Nugent's 'Geisha
Man': Harlem decadence, multiraciality, and incest fantasy;
6. Hallowed
incest: Eric Gill, Indian aesthetics, and queer Catholicism.
Kristin Mahoney is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Gender in a Global Context at Michigan State University. Her first book, Literature and the Politics of Post-Victorian Decadence, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015.
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