Misreading Anita Brookner : aestheticism, intertextuality, and the queer nineteenth century /

Anita Brookner was known for writing boring books about lonely, single women. Misreading Anita Brookner unlocks the mysteries of the Brookner heroine by creating entirely new ways to read six Brookner novels. Drawing on diverse intertextual sources, Peta Mayer illustrates how Brookner's solitar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mayer, Peta (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020.
Colección:Liverpool English texts and studies ; 80.
Temas:
Brookner, Anita > Criticism and interpretation.
Brookner, Anita
Literary studies: from c 1900.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
History > Modern > 20th Century.
Literary Criticism > Feminist.
Literary Criticism > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literary Criticism > Women Authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The military man, the analysand, and the queer in A Friend from England (1987)
  • The aesthete in A Misalliance (1986)
  • The dandy in Brief Lives (1990)
  • The Fla^neur in Undue Influence (1999)
  • The degenerate in Falling Slowly (1998)
  • Epilogue: the storyteller returns: Hotel du Lac (1984).

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