Materializing Queer Desire: Oscar Wilde to Andy Warhol
How did the queer subject come to occupy such a central, and in many respects, contradictory place in the modern world of the early twentieth century? What role has capitalism played in the development of modern gay and lesbian identities? Materializing Queer Desire focuses on the figure of the dandy to explore how and why gay and lesbian subjects became heroes of modern life. Elisa Glick argues that the gay subject emerged out of the specifically modern, capitalist contradiction between the...
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Uses iconic dandy and queer figures to explore relationships between homosexuality, modernism, and modernity.
