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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mayer, Peta (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020.
Series:Liverpool English texts and studies ; 80.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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