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Liverpool University Press Misreading Anita Brookner: Aestheticism, Intertextuality and the Queer Nineteenth Century (Liverpool English Texts and Studies): 80

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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 art and on diverse intertextual sources from Charles Baudelaire to Henry James, Renee Vivien and Freud, this book argues that Brookner's solitary twentieth-century women can also be seen as variations of queer nineteenth-century male artist archetypes. Conjuring a cast of Romantic personae including the flaneur, the dandy, the aesthete, the military man, the queer, the analysand, the degenerate and the storyteller, it illuminates clusters of nineteenth-century behaviours which help decode the lives of Brookner's twentieth-century women. This exploration of Brookner's 'performative Romanticism' exposes new depths within her outsider introverts, who are revealed as a subversive blend of the historical, the contemporary, the masculine and the feminine. Review Anita Brookner deserves this detailed, sophisticated, brilliant reading that appreciates Brookner's peculiar genius and uncovers the ways in which she "does indeed write a different kind of novel." Given the intertextual, allusive nature of Brookner's work and her extraordinary expertise on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art and literature, Dr Mayer's "misreading" of Brookner's "performative romanticism" is entirely appropriate. --Ann Holbrook, Professor of English at Saint Anselm College "By tracing the ways in which Brookner’s intellectual achievements as an art historian informed her fiction, Mayer celebrates the subversive potential of Brookner’s performative Romanticism, and offers an important reevaluation of this author’s too long underrated body of work." --Kathryn Pallant, Contemporary Women's Writing About the Author Peta Mayer holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Melbourne.

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Brand: Liverpool University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1789620597
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
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Release Date: 31 January 2020
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