pbAssembles texts, performances, and personae from American culture to assert the elemental naturebbrbof styleb pWhile style is equated with fashion or convention in common parlance, iStyle A Queer Cosmologyibrdefines the term as a mode of expression that makes us more like ourselves and less like everyone else.brTaylor Black's interdisciplinary conceptual analysis assembles texts, performances, and personae frombrAmerican culture that engage in ethical, creative, and performative modes of what he terms abundantbrrevelation. Moving back and forth through time, this book sketches American cosmologies cultivated bybriconic and subterranean American artists like Edgar Allan Poe, Flannery O'Connor, Nikki Giovanni, andbrBob Dylan. Presiding throughout is the book's conceptual guide latter-day American and notoriousbrhomosexual Quentin Crisp, resurrected here as a philosopher of style. pAs a scholarly intervention, Style participates in the critical work of revival and attunement--revitalizi