History's Queer Stories : Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War / Natalie Marena Nobitz.
Material type: TextSeries: Queer studies ; Bd. 19.Publisher: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 3839445434
- 9783839445433
- 3837645436
- 9783837645439
- Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war
- English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Sexual orientation in literature
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
- English fiction
- Homosexuality and literature
- Sexual orientation in literature
- War and literature
- Great Britain
- World War (1939-1945)
- 1900-1999
- 809.93353 23
- PN56.H57 N635 2018eb
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
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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