‘Now—For a Breath I Tarry’: Breath, Desire and Queer Materialism at the Fin de Siècle
(2021)
Book Chapter
Riddell, F. (2021). ‘Now—For a Breath I Tarry’: Breath, Desire and Queer Materialism at the Fin de Siècle. In C. Saunders, D. Fuller, & J. Macnaughton (Eds.), The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary (345-365). (1). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74443-4_17
Riddell explores how tropes of breath and breathlessness articulate the relationship between materiality, desire, and loss for queer subjects in Victorian literature. The essay presents readings of A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad, John Addington Sym... Read More about ‘Now—For a Breath I Tarry’: Breath, Desire and Queer Materialism at the Fin de Siècle.