Overview
Challenging, original essays
Deals with controversial aspects of Hollinghurst’s work and its relation to contemporary queer politics
Places Hollinghurst’s works within the emerging currents of queer and contemporary British fiction
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is a challenging and engaging collection of original essays on the novels of Alan Hollinghurst, Britain’s foremost gay writer and the English novel’s master stylist. The essays engage the precarious and shifting relationship between sex and literary sensibility in his novels and, thus, also attempt to establish the parameters of a new critical discourse for future research on Hollinghurst’s novel, queer theory and the contemporary literary representations of masculinity and sexuality. By coupling the consideration of Hollinghurst’s aesthetics, his sensuously evocative style, to an interrogation of the social, political and sexual currents in his texts, the contributors of this collection provide distinctive interpretations of Hollinghurst’s novels, from Hollinghurst’s uncovering of a gay artistic heritage to his re-signification of earlier English literary styles, from his engagement with the Symbolist fin de siècle to his critique of aestheticism, etc., whilst paying close attention to the formally innovative qualities of his texts.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sex and Sensibility in the Novels of Alan Hollinghurst
Editors: Mark Mathuray
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-33722-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-33721-4Published: 07 June 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-33722-1Published: 26 May 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 202
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Contemporary Literature, Literary Theory