Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission

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Literary texts that address tradition and the transmission of knowledge often seem concerned less with preservation than with loss, recurrently describing scenarios of what author Kevin Ohi terms "thwarted transmission." Such scenes, however, do not so much concede the impossibility of survival as look into what constitutes literary knowledge and w

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"In this remarkable work, Kevin Ohi makes an extraordinarily compelling account of the queer ways that beauty, bodies, and desires circulate and continue to live on as literary texts. Dead Letters Sent makes clear that Ohi has become one of the most accomplished, and one of the most transmissive, literary critics of his generation."Michael Moon, Emory University

"While many queer theorists attest to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwicks influence on their work, Kevin Ohis book truly expands the reflective practice of queer pedagogy. This is a beautifully written book."Nicholas de Villiers, author of Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol

"Dead Letters Sent is itself a model of queer transmission, one thatmay well inspire and inform future work in literary studies. "American Literary History

"Ohis careful attention to his primary texts offers many rewards."Modern Philology

Author Bio

Kevin Ohi is professor of English at Boston College and the author of Innocence and Rapture: The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov and Henry James and the Queerness of Style (Minnesota, 2011).