History's Queer Stories
Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War (Edition 1)
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Auteur
Nobitz, Natalie Marena
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Language
EnglishRésumé
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 (1953), Sarah Waters The Night Watch (2006) and Adam Fitzroy's Make Do and Mend (2012).
Keywords
Literary Criticism; European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Social Science; LGBTQ+ Studies; Gay Studies; Social Science; Gender StudiesISBN
9783839445433Publisher
transcript VerlagPublisher website
http://www.transcript-verlag.dePublication date and place
Bielefeld, 2018Imprint
transcript VerlagClassification
Literature: history and criticism
LGBTQ+ Studies / topics
Gender studies, gender groups