ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of the book. The book presents a study of twentieth-century English fiction that projects the future as an object of desire, be it averse or beckoning. It considers how the late Victorian repudiation of domestic patriarchy results in attempts to rethink gender and intimacy in twentieth-century writing. The book deals with a study of the fiction of the contemporary writer, Alan Hollinghurst, especially as it touches upon interracial sexual ties between males in England over the past century. Time has been an important conceptual category in the theory of sexual dissidence. In queer theory in the twenty-first century, this theorizing has taken on a decidedly phenomenological character. However, the single most influential theorist of temporality in gay and queer studies continues to be Lee Edelman, whose view of the sexual subject combines Althusserian and Lacanian perspectives.
