Keywords:
Queer theory
;
Waters, Sarah 1966-
;
Hollinghurst, Alan 1954-
;
London
;
Homosexualität
;
Geschichte
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Sex(in') the City -- Lefebvre and the Conceptualization of Space -- Mapping and Controlling Sexuality in London -- Is it Queer? Gay and Lesbian Spatial Appropriations -- Queer Spaces and Literary Practices -- Sarah Waters -- Chapter 2 London is a Stage -- Introduction -- London, History, and the Music Hall -- Staging Reality -- The City as a Stage -- Chapter 3 Panopticism, Domesticity and the Imaginary of Prison in Affinity -- Introduction -- Diary Fiction, the Gothic Novel, and the Making of Class -- Narrating Prison -- Spiritualism and the Transgression of Class and Gender Norms -- Chapter 4"Thank God for the war" -- Introduction -- Queer Chronotopes -- Wartime Ideology and Social Transformation -- The Myth of the Blitz and the Limits of Sexual Freedom -- War, Identity and Queer Futures -- Alan Hollinghurst -- Chapter 5 Neoliberal Ideology and the Homonormative City in The Swimming‐Pool Library -- Introduction -- Neoliberalism and Postmodernism -- The Narrator as a Privileged Neoliberal Subject -- Neoliberalism and Self‐Representation -- Chapter 6 Thatcherism, Domesticity and the Production of Homonormative Spaces in The Line of Beauty -- Introduction -- Tradition, Ideology, and the Jamesian Narrator -- The Public Stage of Domesticity -- AIDS, Homophobia, and the Politics of Urban Privatization -- Chapter 7 Out of the Metropolis -- Introduction -- Historiography and Metafictionality -- Homosexuality, Historiography, and the Literary Canon -- Homonormativity, Respectability and the Continuum of Misogyny and Sexism -- Chapter 8 London and the Spatialization of Queer Histories -- The Historical Novel and Historiographic Metafiction -- Historiography, Intertextuality and Literary History -- Urban Mobility -- Queer Domesticities -- Final Words -- Bibliography.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9783839457344
Series Statement:
Queer Studies 22
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=7111886
DDC:
306.7601
Language:
English
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