Circulating Queerness – Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel Hurley Paperback

Circulating QueernessBefore the Gay and Lesbian Novel\nAuthor(s): Natasha Hurley\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9781517900359, 978-1517900359\nSynopsis\nA new history of the queer novel shows its role in constructing gay and lesbian lives\n\n The gay and lesbian novel has long been a distinct literary genre with its own awards, shelving categories, bookstore spaces, and book reviews. But very little has been said about the remarkable history of its emergence in American literature, particularly the ways in which the novel about homosexuality did not just reflect but actively produced queer life.\n\nDrawing on Mikhail Bakhtins insight that the history of society is connected to the history of language, author Natasha Hurley charts the messy, complex movement by which the queer novel produced the very frames that made it legible as a distinct literature and central to the imagination of queer.