Misreading Anita Brookner Aestheticism, Intertextuality and the Queer Nineteenth Century |
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| Author:
| Mayer, Peta |
| Series title: | Liverpool English Texts and Studies LUP Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78962-059-7 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2020 |
| Publisher: | Liverpool University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $150.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.