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Desire and time in modern English fiction : 1919-2017 / Richard Dellamora

Author:
Dellamora, Richard
Published:
New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Copyright Date:
©2021
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 256 pages).
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Contents:
Modernity and degeneration in Somerset Maugham and Paul Gauguin : The moon and sixpence and the South Sea Tales -- Haunting the West End : Oscar Wilde and silent Hitchcock -- History and revolution in Sylvia Townsend Warner's Summer will show -- A pathological legacies : patriarchy in Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and John Maynard Keynes -- "A new space of time" : determining the future in The years -- Sexual politics and blackout in Patrick Hamilton's Rope, Gaslight, and Hangover Square -- George Orwell, futurity, and male homosexual panic -- Queering past-and future-in Sarah Waters' Affinity -- Ecological time and social desire in Amitav Ghosh's The hungry tide -- Male homoerotics in the metamodernist fictions of Alan Hollinghurst.
Summary:
Beginning with Somerset Maugham's innovative, sexually dissident South Seas novel and tales and Alfred Hitchcock's gay-inflected revisiting of the Jack the Ripper sensation in silent film, this book considers the continuing presence of the past in future-oriented work of the 1930s and the Second World War by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, and the playwright and novelist, Patrick Hamilton. The final three chapters carry the discussion to the present in analyses of works by lesbian, postcolonial, and gay authors such as Sarah Waters, Amitav Ghosh, and Alan Hollinghurst. Focusing on questions about temporality and changes in gender and sexuality, especially gay and lesbian, straight and queer, following the rejection of the Victorian patriarchal marriage model, this study examines the continuing influence of late Victorian Aestheticist and Decadent culture in Modernist writing and its permutations in England.
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ISBN:
9781003044161 electronic book
1003044166 electronic book
9781000169270 electronic book
1000169278 electronic book
9781000169218 (electronic bk. : PDF)
1000169219 (electronic bk. : PDF)
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endowment Note:
Paterno Family Librarian Endowment in Literature
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