History's Queer Stories : Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War / Natalie Marena Nobitz.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Queer Studies ; 19Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (310 p.)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9783839445433
- English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Sexual orientation in literature
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war
- British Studies
- Gender History
- Gender Studies
- Gender
- Homosexuality
- Literary Studies
- Literature
- Military
- Queer Theory
- Queer
- Second World War
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- British Studies
- Gender History
- Gender Studies
- Gender
- Homosexuality
- Literary Studies
- Literature
- Military
- Queer Theory
- Queer
- Second World War
- 823.914090353 23
- PR478.H65 N63 2018
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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
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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).
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