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portada Misreading Anita Brookner: Aestheticism, Intertextuality and the Queer Nineteenth Century
Type
Physical Book
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.4 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm
Weight
0.52 kg.
ISBN13
9781789620597

Misreading Anita Brookner: Aestheticism, Intertextuality and the Queer Nineteenth Century

Peta Mayer (Author) · Liverpool University Press · Hardcover

Misreading Anita Brookner: Aestheticism, Intertextuality and the Queer Nineteenth Century - Mayer, Peta

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Synopsis "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 famously depressed Brookner heroine by creating entirely new ways to read six Brookner novels.Drawing on Brookner's legacy as a renowned historian of French Romantic art and on diverse intertextual sources from Charles Baudelaire to Henry James, Renée Vivien and Freud, this book argues that Brookner's solitary twentieth-century women can also be seen as variations of queer nineteenth-century male artist archetypes. Conjuring a cast of Romantic personae including the flâneur, the dandy, the aesthete, the military man, the queer, the analysand, the degenerate and the storyteller, it illuminates clusters of nineteenth-century behaviours which help decode the lives of Brookner's twentieth-century women. This exploration of Brookner's 'performative Romanticism' exposes new depths within her outsider introverts, who are revealed as a subversive blend of the historical, the contemporary, the masculine and the feminine.

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