Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies

Introduction | 1
Part I: Queer Natures
Charles Darwin, Queer Theorist | 11
The Comedy of Nature: Darwinian Feminism
in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts | 50
Art for Science’s Sake: Wilde in Whitman’s Wilderness | 90
Exfoliating Modernist Realism: Carpenter,
Darwin, and Forster | 97
“Spectacles in Color”: The Primitive Drag
of Langston Hughes | 106
Epilogue: The Myth of Nature | 134
Part II: Queer Mythologies
Fast Books Read Slow: The Shapes of Speed
in Manhattan Transfer and The Sun Also Rises | 159
Making Modernism New: Queer Mythology
in The Young and Evil | 194
American Failurism: Hart Crane’s The Bridge and Kenneth
Burke’s Paradox of Purity | 229
The Cruelty of Breeding: Queer Time in The Waste Land | 258
Essays
The Ancients and the Queer Moderns
Scott Herring | 271
Contrary / Sexual / Feeling
Heather Love | 288
Late Sam See
Wendy Moffat | 300
Acknowledgments | 309
List of Contributors | 311
Index | 313