Queer attachments : the cultural politics of shame / Sally R. Munt

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-242) and index

The cultural politics of shame : an introduction -- Queer Irish sodomites : the shameful histories of Edmund Burke, William Smith, Theodosius Reed, the Earl of Castlehaven and diverse servants - among others -- Shove the queer : Irish/American shame in New York's annual St. Patrick Day parades -- Expulsion : the queer turn of shame -- Queering the pitch : contagious acts of shame in organisations -- Shameless in queer street -- A queer undertaking : uncanny attachments in the HBO television drama series Six feet under -- After the fall : queer heterotopias in Philip Pullman's His dark materials trilogy -- A queer feeling when I look at you : Tracey Emin's aesthetics of the self