Middlebrow queer : Christopher Isherwood in America / Jaime Harker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harker, Jaime.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality in literature.

Gay culture in literature.

Homosexuality and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Homosexuality and literature.

Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

Gay men--Identity.

Gay men.

Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986--Criticism and interpretation.

Isherwood, Christopher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jaime Harker shows that Christopher Isherwood refashioned himself as an American writer following his emigration from England by immersing himself in the gay reading, writing, and publishing communities in Cold War America. Weaving together biography, history, and literary criticism, Middlebrow Queer traces the continuous evolution of Isherwood's simultaneously queer and American postwar authorial identity.

Contents:

Middlebrow Queer; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Christopher and His Readers; CHAPTER 1: Isherwood's American Incarnation and the Gay Protest Novel; CHAPTER 2: "Too Queer to Be Quaker": Gay Protest and Camp; CHAPTER 3: "Fagtrash": Pulp Paperbacks and Cold War Queer Readers; CHAPTER 4: Sixties Literature and the Ascension of Camp Middlebrow; Chapter 5: "A Delicious Purgatory": Sex and "Salvation"; Chapter 6: Secret Agents and Gay Identity: Cold War Queerness; Chapter 7: Spiritual Trash: Hindus, Homos, and Gay Pulp

Chapter 8: Christopher Isherwood, Gay Liberation, and the Question of StyleNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-3921-7