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Queer Victorian Identities in Goblin Market (1862) and In Memoriam (1850): Uncovering the Subversive Undercurrents of the Literary Canon

Hay, Jonathan
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2018
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This article argues for the importance of recognizing the queerness of many established works within the literary canon as a means of contextualising modern queer identities and practices historically. It undertakes the queer reappropriation of two canonical Victorian poems; Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (1862), and Alfred, Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam (1850). As the article demonstrates, the queer affective features of these poems express the viability of alternative modes of relation, and so convey a poignant sense of the insurrectionary elation that can be realised through affective relationships that subvert normative sexual conventions.
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Hay, J. (2018). Queer Victorian identities in Goblin Market (1862) and In Memoriam (1850): Uncovering the subversive undercurrents of the literary canon. Exclamat!on: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2, 149-172.
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University of Exeter
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Exclamat!on: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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2515-0332
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https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/media/universityofexeter/collegeofhumanities/english/research/exclamationjournal/ExclamationVol2.pdf