Libidinal Currents Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism
- List Price: $94.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
- Publish date: 02/01/1998
Challenging overarching theories of the novel by carefully mapping the historical contexts that have influenced modern experimental narratives, Boone constructs a model for interpreting sexuality that reaches from Freud's theory of the libidinal instincts to Foucault's theory of sexual discourse. The most ambitious study yet written on the links between literary modernity and the psychology of sex, Boone's Libidinal Currents will be a landmark book in the study of modernist fiction, gay studies/queer theory, feminist criticism, and studies in sexuality and gender.
"Not only a consummate close reader but also a systematic and visionary thinker, Joseph Boone has produced a brilliant study of the libidinal politics of modernism". -- Patricia Yaeger, University of Michigan
