{"product_id":"david-foster-wallaces-toxic-sexuality-edward-jackson-9781350249295","title":"David Foster Wallace's Toxic Sexuality: Hideousness, Neoliberalism, Spermatics","description":"\u003ci\u003eDavid Foster Wallace's Toxic Sexuality: Hideousness, Neoliberalism, Spermatics\u003c\/i\u003e is the first full-length study of perhaps the most controversial aspect of Wallace's work - male sexuality. Departing from biographical accounts of Wallace's troubled relationship to sex, the book offers new and engaging close readings of this vexed topic in both his fiction and non-fiction. Wallace consistently returns to images of sexual toxicity across his career to argue that, when it comes to sex, men are immutably hideous. He makes this argument by drawing on a variety of neoliberal logics and spermatic metaphors, which in their appeal to apparently neutral economic processes and natural bodily facts, forestall the possibility that men can change. The book therefore provides a revisionist account of Wallace's attitudes towards capitalism, as well as a critical dissection of his approach to masculinity and sexuality. In doing so, \u003ci\u003eDavid Foster Wallace's Toxic Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003eshows how Wallace can be considered a neoliberal writer, whose commitment to furthering male sexual toxicity is a disturbing but undeniable part of his literary project.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edward Jackson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350249297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350249295\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/27\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.48d","brand":"Edward Jackson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993636897023,"sku":"9781350249295","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0c46d72f-a578-47ce-a4b7-47e052dd64af.jpg?v=1683325450","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/david-foster-wallaces-toxic-sexuality-edward-jackson-9781350249295","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}