The Queer Cultures of 1930s Prose

Language, Identity and Performance in Interwar Britain

Charlotte Charteris (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

IX, 285 Seiten

2019 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-02413-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	18.01.2019
Zusatzinfo	IX, 285 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	514 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	British and Irish Literature • Christopher Isherwood • Evelyn Waugh • gender performativity • Gender Trouble (1990) • interwar Britain • Interwar writing • Long 1930s • Patrick Hamilton • Queer Cultures • Queer lives • Raymond Williams • Subversive sexuality
ISBN-10	3-030-02413-X / 303002413X
ISBN-13	978-3-030-02413-0 / 9783030024130
Zustand	Neuware