London, Queer Spaces and Historiography in the Works of Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst Júlia Braga Neves

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neves, Júlia Braga Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Deutschland, Author.

Contributor:

Backlisttransformation EOSC Future, Funder.

Series:

Queer studies ; Volume 22.

Queer Studies 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

London; Sarah Waters; Alan Hollinghurst; Queer Spaces; Queer Historiography; Literature; Gender; Cultural History; British Studies; Queer Theory; Sexuality; Literary Studies;.

Local Subjects:

London; Sarah Waters; Alan Hollinghurst; Queer Spaces; Queer Historiography; Literature; Gender; Cultural History; British Studies; Queer Theory; Sexuality; Literary Studies;.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2022

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Júlia Braga Neves is a professor of English literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She completed her PhD in English Literature and Culture at Humboldt University in Berlin and King's College London and pursues research involving Gender and Queer Studies, London, literature and historiography, and Contemporary English literature.

Summary:

Queer spaces are crucial for the construction of LGBTQ+ communities, as they constitute places where queer subjects can create political, social, and affective alliances. Júlia Braga Neves shows how these spaces are pivotal for the representation of queer history in the fictional works by the British authors Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst, whose characters and plots are articulated through and within London's sexual geographies. Considering the intersection between gender, sexuality, and class, this study engages with spatial, queer, feminist, and Marxist theories as a means to reflect on London, queer historiography, and the relationship between subject and urban space.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 Sex(in') the City

Lefebvre and the Conceptualization of Space

Mapping and Controlling Sexuality in London

Is it Queer? Gay and Lesbian Spatial Appropriations

Queer Spaces and Literary Practices

Sarah Waters

Chapter 2 London is a Stage

London, History, and the Music Hall

Staging Reality

The City as a Stage

Chapter 3 Panopticism, Domesticity and the Imaginary of Prison in Affinity

Diary Fiction, the Gothic Novel, and the Making of Class

Narrating Prison

Spiritualism and the Transgression of Class and Gender Norms

Chapter 4"Thank God for the war"

Queer Chronotopes

Wartime Ideology and Social Transformation

The Myth of the Blitz and the Limits of Sexual Freedom

War, Identity and Queer Futures

Alan Hollinghurst

Chapter 5 Neoliberal Ideology and the Homonormative City in The Swimming‐Pool Library

Neoliberalism and Postmodernism

The Narrator as a Privileged Neoliberal Subject

Neoliberalism and Self‐Representation

Chapter 6 Thatcherism, Domesticity and the Production of Homonormative Spaces in The Line of Beauty

Tradition, Ideology, and the Jamesian Narrator

The Public Stage of Domesticity

AIDS, Homophobia, and the Politics of Urban Privatization

Chapter 7 Out of the Metropolis

Historiography and Metafictionality

Homosexuality, Historiography, and the Literary Canon

Homonormativity, Respectability and the Continuum of Misogyny and Sexism

Chapter 8 London and the Spatialization of Queer Histories

The Historical Novel and Historiographic Metafiction

Historiography, Intertextuality and Literary History

Urban Mobility

Queer Domesticities

Final Words

Bibliography.

Primary Texts

Secondary Texts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Other Format:

Print version: Neves, Júlia Braga London, Queer Spaces and Historiography in the Works of Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst

ISBN:

9783839457344

3839457343

OCLC:

1348489697