The Queer Cultures of 1930s Prose: Language, Identity and Performance in Interwar Britain

by Charlotte Charteris

Offering a radical reassessment of 1930s British literature, this volume questions the temporal limits of the literary decade, and broadens the scope of queer literary studies to consider literary-historical responses to a variety of behaviours encompassed by the term 'queer' in its many senses. Whilst it is informed by the history of sexuality in twentieth-century Europe, it is also profoundly concerned with what Christopher Isherwood termed 'the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303002413X
• ISBN13: 9783030024130
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"