Polymorphous Domesticities: Pets, Bodies, and Desire in Four Modern Writers Volume 10

by Juliana Schiesari

Book Overview

Polymorphous Domesticities maps out the play of gender, sexuality, and alternative forms of domesticity in the works of four modern European and American writers--Edith Wharton, Djuna Barnes, Colette, and J. R. Ackerley. What these four writers have in common is a defiance of patriarchal paradigms in their lives as well as in their works. Not only did they live outside the norms of the heterosexual family unit, they also pursued and wrote about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520270843
• ISBN13: 9780520270848
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"