American Literature a Journal of Literary History Criticism and Bibliography, 1998
Elizabeth Honeymoon with a Stranger: Pedophiliac Freeman Picaresques from Poe to Nabokov E I or r... more Elizabeth Honeymoon with a Stranger: Pedophiliac Freeman Picaresques from Poe to Nabokov E I or readers of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Little Annie's Ramble" brings a creepy thrill of rec-ognition. First published in Youth's Keepsake in 1834, "Little Annie's ...
For this contribution to the special issue on "Mapping Queer Bioethics," the author off... more For this contribution to the special issue on "Mapping Queer Bioethics," the author offers a reflection on the nature of the literary, written word as the ethically-fraught site of queer bioethics. By invoking the historical tendencies and tropes of the clinical case history alongside a seminal text by Gerturde Stein, the author at once asks if we should liberate a queer bioethics from biomedical discourse via mainstream narrative; or if we should see this strategy as unavoidably housed in narrative forms of story-telling because it echoes the tropes and stakes of the clinical, pathologized case history as regards queer sensibilities.
American Literature a Journal of Literary History Criticism and Bibliography, 1998
Elizabeth Honeymoon with a Stranger: Pedophiliac Freeman Picaresques from Poe to Nabokov E I or r... more Elizabeth Honeymoon with a Stranger: Pedophiliac Freeman Picaresques from Poe to Nabokov E I or readers of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Little Annie's Ramble" brings a creepy thrill of rec-ognition. First published in Youth's Keepsake in 1834, "Little Annie's ...
For this contribution to the special issue on "Mapping Queer Bioethics," the author off... more For this contribution to the special issue on "Mapping Queer Bioethics," the author offers a reflection on the nature of the literary, written word as the ethically-fraught site of queer bioethics. By invoking the historical tendencies and tropes of the clinical case history alongside a seminal text by Gerturde Stein, the author at once asks if we should liberate a queer bioethics from biomedical discourse via mainstream narrative; or if we should see this strategy as unavoidably housed in narrative forms of story-telling because it echoes the tropes and stakes of the clinical, pathologized case history as regards queer sensibilities.
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