The Queer Cultures of 1930s Prose

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Beschreibung

Offering a radical reassessment of 1930s British literature, this volume questions the temporal limits of the literary decade, and broadens the scope of queer literary studies to consider literary-historical responses to a variety of behaviours encompassed by the term ¿queer¿ in its many senses. Whilst it is informed by the history of sexuality in twentieth-century Europe, it is also profoundly concerned with what Christopher Isherwood termed ¿the market value of the Odd.¿ Drawing, for its methodology, on the work of Raymond Williams, it traces the impact of the Great War on the development of language, examining the use of ten ¿keywords¿ in the prose of Christopher Isherwood, Evelyn Waugh and Patrick Hamilton, and that of their respective literary milieux, in order to establish how queer lives and modern sub-cultural identities were forged collaboratively within the fictional realm. By utilizing contemporary perspectives on performativity in conjunction with detailed close readings it repositions these authors as self-conscious agents actively producing their own queer masculinities through calculated acts of linguistic transgression.

Über den Autor

Charlotte Charteris is a former Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English and By-Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, specializing in literature of the fin-de-siècle, modernist and mid-twentieth-century periods, with a particular interest in queer studies and the aesthetics of transgression.

Zusammenfassung

Explores queer lives through ?literary texts, letters, diaries, autobiographical writings and works of cultural commentary

Includes analysis of so-called 'queer heterosexual' authors of the period alongside their homosexual contemporaries

Traces the impact of the Great War on the development of the English language

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Language, Identity and Performance.- Part I: Christopher Isherwood and the Auden Generation.- Part II: Evelyn Waugh and the Bright Young People.- Part III: Patrick Hamilton and the Fitzrovians.- Afterword: James Hanley and the Liverpool-Irish.- Select Bibliography.- Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Geisteswissenschaften , Kunst , Musik
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	ix 285 S.
ISBN-13:	9783030024130
ISBN-10:	303002413X
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-3-030-02413-0
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Charteris, Charlotte
Auflage:	1st edition 2019
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	216 x 153 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Charlotte Charteris
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.01.2019
Gewicht:	0,498 kg