Queer is a good nineteenth-century American word, appearing almost everywhere in the literature of the time. And, as often as not, the nineteenth-century use of the word seems to anticipate the sexually specific meanings it would later accrue. Q19: The Queer American Nineteenth Century makes available again a set of literary texts from the long American nineteenth century in which the queer appears in all its complex range of meanings.
Series Editor:
Christopher Looby
Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles
Staff Editorial Contact:
Walter Biggins, Editor-in-Chief wbiggins@upenn.edu
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