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OverviewBeginning with Somerset Maugham’s innovative, sexually dissident South Seas novel and tales and Alfred Hitchcock’s gay-inflected revisiting of the Jack the Ripper sensation in silent film, this book considers the continuing presence of the past in future-oriented work of the 1930s and the Second World War by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, and the playwright and novelist, Patrick Hamilton. The final three chapters carry the discussion to the present in analyses of works by lesbian, postcolonial, and gay authors such as Sarah Waters, Amitav Ghosh, and Alan Hollinghurst. Focusing on questions about temporality and changes in gender and sexuality, especially gay and lesbian, straight and queer, following the rejection of the Victorian patriarchal marriage model, this study examines the continuing influence of late Victorian Aestheticist and Decadent culture in Modernist writing and its permutations in England. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richard DellamoraPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.349kg ISBN: 9780367490447ISBN 10: 0367490447 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 29 April 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Introduction Chapter One Modernity and Degeneration in Somerset Maugham and Paul Gauguin: The Moon and Sixpence and the South Sea Tales Chapter Two Haunting the West End: Oscar Wilde and Silent Hitchcock Chapter Three History and Revolution in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Summer Will Show Chapter Four Pathological Legacies: Patriarchy in Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and John Maynard Keynes Chapter Five""A New Space of Time"": Determining the Future in The Years Chapter SixBlack-out: Anti-Fascism in Patrick Hamilton’s Rope, Gaslight, and Hangover Square Chapter Seven George Orwell, Futurity, and Male Homosexual Panic Chapter Eight Queering Past--and Future--in Sarah Waters’ Affinity Chapter Nine Ecological Time and Social Desire in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide Chapter Ten Male Homoerotics in the Metamodernist Fictions of Alan Hollinghurst"ReviewsAuthor InformationRichard Dellamora is a widely published author on dissident male and female sexuality in Victorian and twentieth-century literature, including Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism (1990) and Radclyffe Hall, A Life in the Writing (2011), among other works and edited collections. Dellamora is Professor Emeritus in the departments of English and Cultural Studies and Fellow of the Centre for Theory, Politics, and Culture at Trent University (Canada). He currently lives and continues to write in Santa Monica, California. Dellamora completed an A. B. at Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.); a B. A.at Queens’ College, Cambridge University; and a Ph.D. in English at Yale University. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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