| Futile Pleasures: Early Modern Literature and the Limits of Utility Contributor(s): McEleney, Corey (Author) |
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ISBN: 0823272664 ISBN-13: 9780823272662 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $29.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Renaissance - Social Science | Gender Studies - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.900 |
| LCCN: 2016013983 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Tracing an ambivalence toward pleasure from the early modern to the modern era, McEleney shows how contemporary critics have recapitulated Renaissance humanist ideals about aesthetic value. Against a longstanding tradition that defensively advocates for the redemptive utility of literature, Futile Pleasures both theorizes and performs the queer pleasures of futility, arguing that in playing with futility we may be able to move beyond the impasses that modern humanists, like their early modern counterparts, have always faced |
Contributor Bio(s): McEleney, Corey: - Corey McEleney is Assistant Professor of English at Fordham University. |