Description: The first book to examine a queer aesthetic of the ordinary in literary modernism, challenging the notion that queerness and ordinariness are incompatible or antagonistic.
Review Quotes: "Ordinary Queerness offers a useful corrective to the queer-theoretical tendency to celebrate libidinal flux, fluidity, and rebellion over everyday practices of care. Rather than call for a toppling of the social order, the book merely aims 'to glimpse a livable world' for queers (148). Today, more than ever, this seems like a laudable goal, and it is no minor achievement that Ordinary Queerness brings us one step closer to it." --Patrick Kindig, Society for U.S. Intellectual History