The Queer Cultures of 1930s Prose : Language, Identity and Performance in Interwar Britain / by Charlotte Charteris.
2019
PN770-PN779
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Title
The Queer Cultures of 1930s Prose : Language, Identity and Performance in Interwar Britain / by Charlotte Charteris.
ISBN
9783030024147
3030024148
9783030024130 (print)
303002413X
9783030024154 (print)
3030024156
3030024148
9783030024130 (print)
303002413X
9783030024154 (print)
3030024156
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (IX, 285 pages) : online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-02414-7 doi
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PN770-PN779
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.04
Summary
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.
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Table of Contents
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
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Index.
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.