{"title":"Charles Darwin, queer theorist","authors":"Sam See, S. Herring, Heather K. Love, W. Moffat","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvsf1qwg.4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Darwin conceptualizes nature as a non-normative, infinitely heterogeneous composite of mutating laws and principles. Contextualizing queer literature within a Darwinian framework presents opportunities to reassess contemporary literary histories of modernism that oppose modernist aesthetics, positivist science, and theoretical orthodoxies about the conceptual dangers of nature.","PeriodicalId":359811,"journal":{"name":"Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvsf1qwg.4","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Darwin conceptualizes nature as a non-normative, infinitely heterogeneous composite of mutating laws and principles. Contextualizing queer literature within a Darwinian framework presents opportunities to reassess contemporary literary histories of modernism that oppose modernist aesthetics, positivist science, and theoretical orthodoxies about the conceptual dangers of nature.