books by Steven Bruhm

books by Steven Bruhm

books:

Steven Bruhm

Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children

University of Minnesota Press, 2004

Our culture has a dominant narrative about children: they are (and should stay) innocent of sexual desires and intentions. At the same time, children are officially, tacitly, assumed to be heterosexual. Curiouser is a book about this narrative and what happens when it takes an unexpected, or queer, turn?when the stories of childhood must confront ...

Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction
Steven Bruhm

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995

An intriguing scholarly investigation, not so much of the ways the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries articulated pain, but of the ways in which pain itself articulated the late eighteenth-century experience. Through analysis of novels, plays, and poems, the author explores the transition from sensibility as a sense of "selflessness" ...

Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy and the Supernatural in English and German Romanticism.(Book Review): An ...
Steven Bruhm

Wordsworth Circle, 2004

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Reflecting Narcissus: A Queer Aesthetic

Steven Bruhm

University of Minnesota Press, 2000

Narcissus redivivus
It's easy to get lost in the refracting images of Narcissus, but Bruhm happens to be an excellent guide through the morass. He opens the book with a challenging but rewarding survey of recent relevant scholarship (Earl Jackson, Leo Bersani, Moe Meyer, Gregory Bredbeck ...