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Queer Kinship after Wilde investigates the literary and cultural legacy of Oscar Wilde’s influence on decadent writers throughout Europe and beyond. Kristin Mahoney analyzes how fin-de-siècle and modernist authors reimagined family structures, kinship bonds, and intimate relationships in their work, challenging heteronormative notions of domesticity and lineage.
The book traces transnational networks of decadent writers who created alternative forms of kinship through their literary communities and personal connections. Mahoney demonstrates how these writers used aesthetic innovation and provocative representation to question traditional family hierarchies and propose queer alternatives.
Published by Cambridge University Press, this critical study offers important insights into the intersection of sexuality, literature, and social organization in modernist culture, revealing how decadent aestheticism fundamentally reshaped understandings of family and belonging across the Western world.
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