Unmaking Love: The Contemporary Novel and the Impossibility of Union

(Part of the Literature Now Series)

by Ashley T. Shelden

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The contemporary novel does more than revise our conception of love--it explodes it, queers it, and makes it unrecognizable. Rather than providing union, connection, and completion, love in contemporary fiction destroys the possibility of unity, harbors negativity, and foregrounds difference.

Comparing contemporary and modernist depictions of love to delineate critical continuities and innovations, Unmaking Love locates queerness...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0231178220

ISBN13:9780231178228

Release Date:January 2017

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:200 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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(Part of the Literature Now Series)

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