Middlebrow queer : Christopher Isherwood in America / Jaime Harker.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harker, Jaime
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Isherwood, Christopher, > 1904-1986 > Criticism and interpretation.
Homosexuality in literature.
Gay culture in literature.
Homosexuality and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Gay men > Identity.
Physical Description:xvii, 203 pages.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Christopher and his readers
  • Isherwood's American incarnation and the gay protest novel
  • "Too queer to be Quaker": gay protest and camp
  • "Fagtrash": pulp paperbacks and Cold War queer readers
  • Sixties' literature and the ascension of camp middlebrow
  • "A delicious purgatory": sex and "salvation"
  • Secret agents and gay identity: Cold War queerness
  • Spiritual trash: Hindus, homos, and gay pulp
  • Christopher Isherwood, gay liberation, and the question of style.