The Inverted Gaze: Queering the French Literary Classics in America

by François Cusset

Fran ois Cusset, author of the acclaimed book French Theory, investigates the queering of the French literary canon by American writers and scholars in this thought-provoking and free-minded journey across six centuries of literary classics and sexual polemics.

Cusset presents the foundations and rationale for American queer theory, the field of study established in the 1990s and promulgated by writers and scholars such as Judith...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551524104
• ISBN13: 9781551524108
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"