Henry James and the Queerness of Style

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Kevin Ohi begins this energetic book with the proposition that to read Henry Jamesparticularly the late textsis to confront the queer potential of style and the traces it leaves on the literary life. In contrast to other recent critics, Ohi asserts that James's queerness is to be found neither in the homoerotic thematics of the texts, however startlingly explicit, nor in the suggestions of same-sex desire in the author's biography, however undeniable, but in his style.

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"Henry James and the Queerness of Style is a brilliant, extraordinarily erudite exemplar of reading and writing as queer practices. It will help to usher in a fresh phase of James studies, in which queerness is the point of embarkation, rather than the ultimate destination." Gustavus Stadler, Haverford College

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Kevin Ohi is associate professor of English at Boston College. He is the author of Innocence and Rapture: The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov.