Misreading Anita Brookner [electronic resource] : aestheticism, intertextuality and the queer nineteenth century / Peta Mayer.

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"Anita Brookner was known for writing boring books about lonely, single women. Misreading Anita Brookner unlocks the mysteries of the famously depressed Brookner heroine by creating entirely new ways to read six Brookner novels. Drawing on Brookner's legacy as a renowned historian of French Romantic...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Liverpool English texts and studies ; 80.
Main Author: Mayer, Peta (Author)
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020.
Series:Liverpool English texts and studies ; 80.
Subjects:
Brookner, Anita > Criticism and interpretation.
Brookner, Anita. > A friend from England.
Brookner, Anita. > A misalliance.
Brookner, Anita. > Brief lives.
Brookner, Anita. > Undue influence.
Brookner, Anita. > Falling slowly.
Brookner, Anita. > Hotel du Lac.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2020 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2020 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Misreading Anita Brookner: Aestheticism, Intertextuality and the Queer Nineteenth Century
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • The military man, the analysand, and the queer in A Friend from England (1987)
  • The aesthete in A Misalliance (1986)
  • The dandy in Brief Lives (1990)
  • The Flâneur in Undue Influence (1999)
  • The degenerate in Falling Slowly (1998)
  • Epilogue: the storyteller returns: Hotel du Lac (1984).