Description
About the Author
Dr Holly Furneaux is Lecturer in Victorian Studies at the University of Leicester. Queer Dickens, her first monograph, draws on her interests in nineteenth-century literature, histories of sexuality, and Victorian cultures of feeling. She has published articles in Nineteenth Century Literature, Philological Quarterly, and The Dickensian on these areas, and has co-edited a special edition of Critical Survey on the topic of 'Dickens and Sex'. She was recently principal organiser of the British Association for Victorian Studies annual conference on the theme of 'Victorian Feeling: Touch, Bodies, Emotions', and is a regular organiser of the venerable Dickensian tradition of 'Dickens Day'.
Reviews
Review from previous edition Dedicated to Sally Ledger, this book will not be the last reminder of the sad loss of a valued mentor and friend. Furneaux's first book is testimony to the impact of Sally's scholarship and pedagogy on a new generation of Victorian scholars: ueer Dickens is a book of which Sally would have been proud. * Wendy Parkins, Dickens Quarterly *
provides fruitful topics for sensitively historic ways into Dickens that seem to leave him intact and, at the same time, appreciably different * Matthew Inglebym Times Literary Supplement *
an important blueprint for future work * Andrew Elfenbein, New Books Online *
illuminatingly attentive to historical and literary subtleties. Furneaux's methodology is gentler with and more dependent on the texts she considers. * Matthew Ingleby, Times Literary Supplement *
Queer theory as Furneaux develops it seems astonishingly versatile and promising... a major achievement in scholarly terms, and immensely enjoyable * Nicola Bradbury, The Dickensian *
What is especially exciting about Furneaux's account is that it not only at long last brings the body of Dickens's writing within the compass of queer theory, but it suggests a new turn in queer theory itself. * Richard A. Kaye, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies *
Consistently provides thought-provoking and original close readings of non-heterosexual relationships in major and minor Dickens work, all substantially contextualized in social history, * Natalie McKnight, English Studies *
an ambitious and provocative study ... a welcome addition to our scholarly attempts to understand the Victorians and their (which is to say, our) sexualities. * Mark W. Turner, Modern Language Review *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199680726
Author Holly Furneaux
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 360g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 17mm