Misreading Anita Brookner : aestheticism, intertextuality, and the queer nineteenth century
Peta Mayer (Author)
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 solitary twentieth-century women can also be seen as variations of queer nineteenth-century male artist archetypes
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource
9781789624700, 9781789629927, 1789624703, 1789629926
1139239752
Print version:
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)