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This book is also freely available online as an open access digital edition on Manifold, here: https://openpub.udel.edu/projects/unsettling-sexuality.
Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century challenges the traditional ways that scholarship has approached sexuality, gender nonconformity, and sex (as well as its absence) in the long eighteenth century. Drawing from recent and emerging criticisms in Middle Eastern and Asian studies, Black studies, and Native American and Indigenous studies, the collected authors perform intersectional queer readings, reimagine queer historiographic methods, and spearhead new citational models that can invigorate the field. Contributors read with and against diverse European, transatlantic, and global archives to explore mutually informative frameworks of gender, sexuality, race, indigeneity, ability, and class. In charting multidirectional queer horizons, this collection locates new prospective desires and intimacies in the literature, culture, and media of the period to imagine new directions and simultaneously unsettle eighteenth-century studies.
Contents
Introduction
Jeremy Chow and Shelby Johnson, "Unsettling Sexuality"
Gender Nonconformity: Embodiment, Sociality, and Politics
Chapter 1: Ula Lukszo Klein, "Transgender Citizenship and Settler Colonialism in Aphra Behn's The Widow Ranter"
Chapter 2: Shelby Johnson, "Samson Occom, the Public Universal Friend, and a Queer Archive of the Elsewhere"
Chapter 3: Humberto Garcia, "Refashioning Masculinity in Regency England: Female Fashions Inspired by the Persian Envoy Mirza Abul Hassan Khan and His Circassian Wife"
Novel Intimacies
Chapter 4: Ziona Kocher, "'My Sister, My Friend, My Ever Beloved ': Queer Friendship and Asexuality in The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph"
Chapter 5: Cailey Hall, "Redefining the Archive in Queer Historical Romance Novels"
Queer Ecologies and Cartographies
Chapter 6: M.A. Miller, "Matters of Intimacy: The Sugar-Cane's Asexual Ecologies"
Chapter 7: Tess J. Given, "Fantasy Maps and Projective Fictions"
Racializing Affect, Queering Temporality
Chapter 8: Nour Afara, "Dark and Delayed Labor: Sex Work and Racialized Time in Eighteenth-Century London"
Chapter 9: Jeremy Chow and Riley DeBaecke, "Unsettling Happiness: Blackness, Gender, and Affect in The Woman of Colour and Its Media Afterlives"
Coda
Eugenia Zuroski, "Coda: Eighteenth-Century Longing"
