Farfan, Penny - Performing Queer Modernism

Focusing on well-known plays and performances of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries, Performing Queer Modernism demonstrates that queer performance was integral to modernism, that queer modernist performance played a key role in the historical emergence of modern sexual identities, and that it anticipated the insights of contemporary queer modernist studies.

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CONTENTS

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Performing Queer Modernism
1. This feverish, jealous attachment of Paula's for Ellean: Homosocial Desire and the Production of Queer Modernism
2. Fairy of Light: Performative Ghosting and the Queer Uncanny
3. Without the assistance of any girls: Queer Sex and the Shock of the New
4. I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives: Popular Plato, Queer Heterosexuality, Comic Form
5. What are you trying to say? - I'm saying it: Queer Performativity in and across Time
Epilogue: what is termed Sin is an essential element of progress
Notes
Works Cited
Index