Unaccountable Form: Queer Failure and Jane Barker's Patchwork Method.

The article focuses on Jane Barker's innovative autobiographical fiction "A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies" patchwork aesthetic as a methodological and formal model of queer failure. It mentions Barker's aesthetic of imperfection, linked to her socially marginal perspective and same-sex desire and...

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Publicado en:Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation Vol. 60; no. 4; pp. 354 - 375
Autor principal: McGrath, Alice Tweedy
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Pennsylvania Press Winter2019
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Sumario:The article focuses on Jane Barker's innovative autobiographical fiction "A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies" patchwork aesthetic as a methodological and formal model of queer failure. It mentions Barker's aesthetic of imperfection, linked to her socially marginal perspective and same-sex desire and advantage of the opportunities queer theory and patchwork conceit's aesthetic of lack and disruption. It also mentions heroic formulations of feminism.