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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Queer Cultures of 1930s Prose
    sub title: Language, Identity and Performance in Interwar Britain
  name:
    name part: Charteris, Charlotte.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 285 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  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 -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
  note: by Charlotte Charteris.
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-20th century
  subject:
    topic: Queer theory
  subject:
    topic: Comparative literature
  subject:
    topic: British literature
  subject:
    topic: Language and languages-Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Twentieth-Century Literature
  subject:
    topic: Queer Theory
  subject:
    topic: Comparative Literature
  subject:
    topic: British and Irish Literature
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Language
  classification: PN770-779
  classification: 809.04
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783030024147
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02414-7
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    record creation date: 190104
    record change date: 20191022141804.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-02414-7