Setting the Record Queer

Download or read book Setting the Record Queer written by Dirk Schulz and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: »To define is to limit«, Lord Henry states, and Mrs. Dalloway »would not say of anyone [...] that they were this or that«. Why then are the respective novels mostly read - and in recent adaptations rewritten - in denial of their genuinely ambiguous designs? Bringing the two literary classics together for the first time, their shared concerns regarding textual and sexual identities are revealed. Challenging an established critical record commonly related to Oscar Wilde's and Virginia Woolf's own mythologised biographies, this study underscores the value of constantly rethinking labels by liberating the texts from the limiting grip of categorical readings.