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- Title
Queer Blue Sea: Sexuality and the Aquatic Uncanny in Philip Hoare's Transatlantic Eco-narratives.
- Authors
Huggan, Graham; Marland, Pippa
- Abstract
I I, I wish you could swim/Like the dolphins/Like dolphins can swim i - David Bowie, "Heroes" Introduction One of the most accomplished British nature writers of our times would probably not qualify in most people's eyes as a nature writer.[1] Philip Hoare is little known in America despite his work's transatlantic allegiances.[2] Nor, despite the acclaim given to his books, one of which, I Leviathan i , won the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, has there been much critical attention to his work in the British Isles. Google Scholar Google Preview OpenURL Placeholder Text WorldCat COPAC 16 Hoare Philip. Google Scholar Google Preview OpenURL Placeholder Text WorldCat COPAC 17 Hoare Philip. Both of these arguments will be familiar to readers, in the United States and elsewhere, who know their Melville, and as we have seen, Hoare openly acknowledges his debt to America's greatest maritime writer, for whom, as for Hoare himself: "The sea is the queerest place I know" ("Angel of The Ocean").
- Subjects
HUMAN-animal relationships; QUEER theory; EARLY modern English literature
- Publication
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature & Environment, 2023, Vol 30, Issue 1, p25
- ISSN
1076-0962
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/isle/isaa161