Affected Potentials: The Dimensions of Incipient Homosexuality and Foundational Affect in Contemporary Gay Literature

Abstract

Affected Potentials explores the relationship between incipient homosexuality and the affects of shame, anxiety and loneliness that underpin it in contemporary literature. Through a closed-text analysis, it is argued that these affects are central to the representation of developing homosexuality in literature and provide the foundation for exploring queer resistance of heteronormativity.