Simple representations of children that frame what is normative and what is queer are examined in a collection of essays by scholars of childhood and sexuality, including such eminent scholars as Lauren Berlant, André Furlani, Judith Halberstam, Ellis Hanson, Paul Kelleher, and others. Simultaneous.

Product Description: Literary Theory/Gay Studies Places this mythological figure at the center of homoerotic creativity and desire. The figure of Narcissus, literally falling for himself, has profoundly influenced Western philosophy and literary theory: he signifies transcendental idealism and its nemesis, vanity; he underlies autoeroticism and misogyny; he has a crucial place in poststructuralist French thought...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An intriguing scholarly investigation, not so much of the ways the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries articulated pain, but of the ways in which pain itself articulated the late eighteenth-century experience. Through analysis of novels, plays, and poems, the author explores the transition from sensibility as a sense of "selflessness" to Romanticism, which puts the self in the foreground as the mediating consciousness...read more