Queer Times: Christopher Isherwood's Modernity
| AUTHOR | Carr, Jamie; Carr, Jamie M. |
| PUBLISHER | Routledge (05/10/2006) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Hardcover (Hardcover) |
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This book maps Christopher Isherwood's intellectual and aesthetic reflections from the late 1930s through the late 1970s. Drawing on the queer theory of Eve Sedgwick and the ethical theory of Michel Foucault, Carr illuminates Isherwood's post-war development of a queer ethos through his focus on the aesthetic, social, and historical politics of the 1930s in his novels Prater Violet (1945), The World in the Evening (1954), and Down There on a Visit (1962), and in his memoir, Christopher and His Kind: 1929-1939 (1976).
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ISBN-13:
9780415978415
ISBN-10:
0415978416
Binding:
Hardback or Cased Book (Unsewn / Adhesive Bound)
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
188
Carton Quantity:
32
Product Dimensions:
6.44 x 0.61 x 9.08 inches
Weight:
0.82 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Index,
Table of Contents
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Literary Criticism | LGBTQ+
Dewey Decimal:
823.912
Library of Congress Control Number:
2006006933
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This book maps Christopher Isherwood's intellectual and aesthetic reflections from the late 1930s through the late 1970s. Drawing on the queer theory of Eve Sedgwick and the ethical theory of Michel Foucault, Carr illuminates Isherwood's post-war development of a queer ethos through his focus on the aesthetic, social, and historical politics of the 1930s in his novels Prater Violet (1945), The World in the Evening (1954), and Down There on a Visit (1962), and in his memoir, Christopher and His Kind: 1929-1939 (1976).
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