Misreading Anita Brookner - Aestheticism, Intertextuality and the Queer Nineteenth Century

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.

About the author

Peta Mayer holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Melbourne.

Product details

• Authors: Peta Mayer
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781789620597
• ISBN: 978-1-78962-059-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies; Liverpool English Texts and St
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies