{"product_id":"the-politics-of-love-maxime-foerster-9781512601701","title":"The Politics of Love: Queer Heterosexuality in Nineteenth-Century French Literature","description":"What would love be if heterosexual couples were no longer assigned gender and sexual norms? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Maxime Foerster examines the \"heterosexual trouble\" between men and women in nineteenth-century French Romantic and Decadent literature. Key works by authors ranging from George Sand to Charles Baudelaire persistently demonstrate that heterosexuality did not work: these authors, and many others, investigated the struggle that men and women alike waged against patriarchal norms. Whereas Romantic fiction dedicated itself to the reinvention of love, Decadence promoted sexual and gender deviance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In expertly evaluating the discord afflicting fictional heterosexual couples, male and female dandies, and doctors and their female patients, Foerster shows the crucial role that literature played in the fashioning of alternative identities. A concluding look at Proust's \u003ci\u003eﾀ la recherche du temps perdu\u003c\/i\u003e traces the legacy of heterosexual trouble in the twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHardcover is un-jacketed.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maxime Foerster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1512601705\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781512601701\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of New Hampshire Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2018","brand":"Maxime Foerster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44057034785023,"sku":"9781512601701","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a8f4e2ff-59db-4fd5-943c-bcd0ecc97bd3.jpg?v=1685044648","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-politics-of-love-maxime-foerster-9781512601701","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}