Bodies at Risk

Robert Burns Neveldine earned his Ph.D. at the University of Washington, where he completed Bodies at Risk and taught as an instructor. He is currently at work on a book about Kurt Cobain, Lee Harvey Oswald, Alan Turing, and Gustav Mahler, as well as a long novel entitled Monster Zero.

• Acknowledgments Preface Overture The Limits of Bodies at Risk Part I Romantic Assemblages Prelude I Wordsworth, Godwin, and the Shelleys Chapter One Wordsworth's "Nutting" and the Violent End of Reading Chapter Two Romantic Fiction Double Feature: Caleb Williams, The Homotextual Adventure Begins, and Frankenstein Meets Pygmalion Part II Postmodern Virtualities Prelude II French Theorists, Minimalism, AIDS Chapter Three On Lacan, Foucault, and Deleuze and Guattari Chapter Four Music into the Body: Philip Glass and Others Chapter Five Skeletons in the Closet: Paradox, Resistance, and the Undead Body of the PWA Epilogue The Virtual Body of Aesthetics Notes Works Cited Index

"Bodies at Risk is exhilarating; it negotiates among texts and theoretical positions with a dexterity and sophistication that is both illuminating and refreshing. There are any number of books now on the market that address the nature and politics of postmodernism, and I don't think we really need another. But then Neveldine's book is not just another—there is, to my knowledge, nothing quite like it. Bodies at Risk is something of a genre unto itself." — Paul Morrison, Brandeis UniversityThis is an eccentric book (in the best sense of the term): it is highly personal and idiosyncratic, yet it speaks to a common queer-theoretical pursuit." — Eric Savoy, University of Calgary