Middlebrow Queer - Christopher Isherwood in America

Klappentext Jaime Harker is associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is author of America the Middlebrow: Women’s Novels! Progressivism! and Middlebrow Authorship between the Wars and coeditor! with Cecilia Konchar Farr! of The Oprah Affect: Critical Essays on Oprah’s Book Club. Zusammenfassung Jaime Harker shows that Christopher Isherwood refashioned himself as an American writer following his emigration from England by immersing himself in the gay reading! writing! and publishing communities in Cold War America. Weaving together biography! history! and literary criticism! Middlebrow Queer traces the continuous evolution of Isherwood's simultaneously queer and American postwar authorial identity.

Product details

• Authors: Jaime Harker, HARKER JAIME
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.02.2013
• EAN: 9780816679133
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-7913-3
• No. of pages: 216
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies