1st Edition

Queer Times Christopher Isherwood's Modernity

By Jamie Carr Copyright 2006
144 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

This book maps Christopher Isherwood's intellectual and aesthetic reflections from the late 1930s through the late 1970s. Drawing on the queer theory of Eve Sedgwick and the ethical theory of Michel Foucault, Carr illuminates Isherwood's post-war development of a queer ethos through his focus on the aesthetic, social, and historical politics of the 1930s in his novels Prater Violet... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 The World in the Evening; Chapter 2 A Novel Image of Time; Chapter 3 Letters and Camp; Chapter 4 Historicizing Subjectivity; Chapter 5 Christopher and His Kind 1929–1939;

Biography

Jamie M. Carr