Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies

Sam See (Author) Sam See was a scholar of Modernist literature and sexuality studies and Assistant Professor of English at Yale University.Christopher Looby (Edited By) Christopher Looby is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.Michael North (Edited By) Michael North is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

• Introduction 1Part I: Queer NaturesCharles Darwin, Queer Theorist 11The Comedy of Nature: Darwinian Feminismin Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts 50Art for Science's Sake: Wilde in Whitman's Wilderness 90Exfoliating Modernist Realism: Carpenter,Darwin, and Forster 97"Spectacles in Color": The Primitive Dragof Langston Hughes 106Epilogue: The Myth of Nature 134Part II: Queer MythologiesFast Books Read Slow: The Shapes of Speedin Manhattan Transfer and The Sun Also Rises 159Making Modernism New: Queer Mythologyin The Young and Evil 194American Failurism: Hart Crane's The Bridge and KennethBurke's Paradox of Purity 229The Cruelty of Breeding: Queer Time in The Waste Land 258EssaysThe Ancients and the Queer ModernsScott Herring 271Contrary / Sexual / FeelingHeather Love 288Late Sam SeeWendy Moffat 300Acknowledgments 309List of Contributors 311Index 313