History's Queer Stories : Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War (Edition 1)
Nobitz, Natalie Marena
History's Queer Stories : Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War (Edition 1) - Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2018
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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 (1953), Sarah Waters The Night Watch (2006) and Adam Fitzroy's Make Do and Mend (2012).
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/doi.org/10.14361/9783839445433
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Literature: history & criticism
Gay & Lesbian studies
Gender studies, gender groups
Literary Criticism European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Social Science LGBTQ+ Studies Gay Studies Social Science Gender Studies
History's Queer Stories : Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War (Edition 1) - Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2018
Open Access
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).
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English
/doi.org/10.14361/9783839445433
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839445433 doi
Literature: history & criticism
Gay & Lesbian studies
Gender studies, gender groups
Literary Criticism European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Social Science LGBTQ+ Studies Gay Studies Social Science Gender Studies