Day 1, April 14 - Presentations
Reading James as queer and Marcher as straight: a new interpretation of Henry James's "The beast in the jungle."
Start Date
14-4-2020 1:00 PM
End Date
14-4-2020 3:00 PM
Publisher
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Place of Publication
Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Abstract
This paper overturns a standard reading of James's story, "The Beast in the Jungle," arguing that James recognized his homosexuality but wrote a story about a straight couple anyway, sanitizing a homoerotic romance of his own for publication.
Date
April 2020
Document Type
presentations
Language
English
Rights
http://rightsstatement.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Recommended Citation
Stuart, Christopher, "Reading James as queer and Marcher as straight: a new interpretation of Henry James's "The beast in the jungle."". ReSEARCH Dialogues Conference proceedings. https://scholar.utc.edu/research-dialogues/2020/day1_presentations/26.
Reading James as queer and Marcher as straight: a new interpretation of Henry James's "The beast in the jungle."
This paper overturns a standard reading of James's story, "The Beast in the Jungle," arguing that James recognized his homosexuality but wrote a story about a straight couple anyway, sanitizing a homoerotic romance of his own for publication.