Queer Times - Christopher Isherwood''s Modernity

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).

List of contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 The World in the Evening; Chapter 2 A Novel Image of Time; Chapter 3 Letters and Camp; Chapter 4 Historicizing Subjectivity; Chapter 5 Christopher and His Kind 1929–1939;

About the author

Jamie M. Carr

Product details

• Authors: Jamie Carr, Jamie M Carr, Jamie M. Carr, Carr Jamie M.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.08.2014
• EAN: 9780415762922
• ISBN: 978-0-415-76292-2
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature & literary studies, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, Biography, Literature and Literary studies