Misreading Anita Brookner : aestheticism, intertextuality, and the queer nineteenth century /
Anita Brookner was known for writing boring books about lonely, single women. Misreading Anita Brookner unlocks the mysteries of the Brookner heroine by creating entirely new ways to read six Brookner novels. Drawing on diverse intertextual sources, Peta Mayer illustrates how Brookner's solitar...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Liverpool English texts and studies ;
80. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
| Summary: | Anita Brookner was known for writing boring books about lonely, single women. Misreading Anita Brookner unlocks the mysteries of the Brookner heroine by creating entirely new ways to read six Brookner novels. Drawing on diverse intertextual sources, Peta Mayer illustrates how Brookner's solitary twentieth-century women can also be seen as variations of queer nineteenth-century male artist archetypes. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781789624700 1789624703 9781789629927 1789629926 |
