History's Queer Stories : Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War /
Nobitz, Natalie Marena, 1989-
History's Queer Stories : Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War / Natalie Marena Nobitz. - 1 online resource - Queer studies ; volume 19 . - Queer studies ; Bd. 19. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: "Never in the History of Sex was so Much Offered to so Many by so Few" -- "People's Pasts [are] so Much More Interesting than Their Futures" -- Re-Negotiating the Homosexual Problem Novel -- "We Have to Do the Things They Tell Us" -- Nation, Masculinity and War -- "The Collapse of a Wall ... Starts with a Few Loose Bricks" -- Queering Space, Body and Time -- "No Sense of a Tidy Ending": Resisting Closure -- Bibliography -- Index
Open Access
Critical analysis of the dramatisation of homosexuality in British fiction about the Second World War is noticeable only by its relative absence from the field. Whereas feminist literary criticism has broadened the canon of war fiction to include narratives by and about women, queer scholars have seldom focused on literary representations of homosexuality during the war. Natalie Marena Nobitz closes a glaring gap in the critical attention of four novels dealing with the disruption of gender roles and institutionalised heteronormativity: Walter Baxter's Look Down in Mercy (1951), Mary Renault's The Charioteer (1952), Sarah Waters' The Night Watch (2006) and Adam Fitzroy's Make Do and Mend (2012).
In English.
3839445434 9783839445433 3837645436 9783837645439
9783837645439 10.14361/9783839445433 doi
9783839445433 transcript Verlag
GBB9B4586 bnb
019104758 Uk
1900-1999
Homosexuality and literature--History--Great Britain--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.--Great Britain
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Sexual orientation in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
English fiction.
Homosexuality and literature.
Sexual orientation in literature.
War and literature.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PN56.H57 / N635 2018eb
809.93353
History's Queer Stories : Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War / Natalie Marena Nobitz. - 1 online resource - Queer studies ; volume 19 . - Queer studies ; Bd. 19. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: "Never in the History of Sex was so Much Offered to so Many by so Few" -- "People's Pasts [are] so Much More Interesting than Their Futures" -- Re-Negotiating the Homosexual Problem Novel -- "We Have to Do the Things They Tell Us" -- Nation, Masculinity and War -- "The Collapse of a Wall ... Starts with a Few Loose Bricks" -- Queering Space, Body and Time -- "No Sense of a Tidy Ending": Resisting Closure -- Bibliography -- Index
Open Access
Critical analysis of the dramatisation of homosexuality in British fiction about the Second World War is noticeable only by its relative absence from the field. Whereas feminist literary criticism has broadened the canon of war fiction to include narratives by and about women, queer scholars have seldom focused on literary representations of homosexuality during the war. Natalie Marena Nobitz closes a glaring gap in the critical attention of four novels dealing with the disruption of gender roles and institutionalised heteronormativity: Walter Baxter's Look Down in Mercy (1951), Mary Renault's The Charioteer (1952), Sarah Waters' The Night Watch (2006) and Adam Fitzroy's Make Do and Mend (2012).
In English.
3839445434 9783839445433 3837645436 9783837645439
9783837645439 10.14361/9783839445433 doi
9783839445433 transcript Verlag
GBB9B4586 bnb
019104758 Uk
1900-1999
Homosexuality and literature--History--Great Britain--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.--Great Britain
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Sexual orientation in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
English fiction.
Homosexuality and literature.
Sexual orientation in literature.
War and literature.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PN56.H57 / N635 2018eb
809.93353