The Queer Cultures of 1930s Prose Language, Identity and Performance in Interwar Britain /

• Main Author: Charteris, Charlotte (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Queer theory.; Comparative literature.; British literature.; Language and languages-Philosophy.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Queer Theory.; Comparative Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; Philosophy of Language.

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 s...

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.