The Resource Middlebrow queer : Christopher Isherwood in America, Jaime Harker
Middlebrow queer : Christopher Isherwood in America, Jaime Harker
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The item Middlebrow queer : Christopher Isherwood in America, Jaime Harker represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries.
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- Summary
- "How could one write about gay life for the mainstream public in Cold War America? Many midcentury gay American writers, hampered by external and internal censors, never managed to do it. But Christopher Isherwood did, and what makes his accomplishment more remarkable is that while he was negotiating his identity as a gay writer, he was reinventing himself as an American one. Jaime Harker shows that Isherwood refashioned himself as an American writer following his emigration from England by immersing himself in the gay reading, writing, and publishing communities in Cold War America. Drawing extensively on Isherwood's archives, including manuscript drafts and unpublished correspondence with readers, publishers, and other writers, Middlebrow Queer demonstrates how Isherwood mainstreamed gay content for heterosexual readers in his postwar novels while also covertly writing for gay audiences and encouraging a symbiotic relationship between writer and reader. The result--in such novels as The World in the Evening, Down There on a Visit, A Single Man, and A Meeting by the River--was a complex, layered form of writing that Harker calls "middlebrow camp," a mode that extended the boundaries of both gay and middlebrow fiction. Weaving together biography, history, and literary criticism, Middlebrow Queer traces the continuous evolution of Isherwood's simultaneously queer and American postwar authorial identity."--Publisher's description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvii, 203 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: Christopher and his readers
- Isherwood's American incarnation and the gay protest novel
- "Too queer to be Quaker": gay protest and camp
- "Fagtrash": pulp paperbacks and Cold War queer readers
- Sixties' literature and the ascension of camp middlebrow
- "A delicious purgatory": sex and "salvation"
- Secret agents and gay identity: Cold War queerness
- Spiritual trash: Hindus, homos, and gay pulp
- Christopher Isherwood, gay liberation, and the question of style
- Isbn
- 9780816679133
- Label
- Middlebrow queer : Christopher Isherwood in America
- Title
- Middlebrow queer
- Title remainder
- Christopher Isherwood in America
- Statement of responsibility
- Jaime Harker
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "How could one write about gay life for the mainstream public in Cold War America? Many midcentury gay American writers, hampered by external and internal censors, never managed to do it. But Christopher Isherwood did, and what makes his accomplishment more remarkable is that while he was negotiating his identity as a gay writer, he was reinventing himself as an American one. Jaime Harker shows that Isherwood refashioned himself as an American writer following his emigration from England by immersing himself in the gay reading, writing, and publishing communities in Cold War America. Drawing extensively on Isherwood's archives, including manuscript drafts and unpublished correspondence with readers, publishers, and other writers, Middlebrow Queer demonstrates how Isherwood mainstreamed gay content for heterosexual readers in his postwar novels while also covertly writing for gay audiences and encouraging a symbiotic relationship between writer and reader. The result--in such novels as The World in the Evening, Down There on a Visit, A Single Man, and A Meeting by the River--was a complex, layered form of writing that Harker calls "middlebrow camp," a mode that extended the boundaries of both gay and middlebrow fiction. Weaving together biography, history, and literary criticism, Middlebrow Queer traces the continuous evolution of Isherwood's simultaneously queer and American postwar authorial identity."--Publisher's description
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Harker, Jaime
- Dewey number
- 823/.912
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR6017.S5
- LC item number
- Z675 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Isherwood, Christopher
- Homosexuality in literature
- Gay culture in literature
- Homosexuality and literature
- Literature and society
- Gay men
- Label
- Middlebrow queer : Christopher Isherwood in America, Jaime Harker
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Introduction: Christopher and his readers -- Isherwood's American incarnation and the gay protest novel -- "Too queer to be Quaker": gay protest and camp -- "Fagtrash": pulp paperbacks and Cold War queer readers -- Sixties' literature and the ascension of camp middlebrow -- "A delicious purgatory": sex and "salvation" -- Secret agents and gay identity: Cold War queerness -- Spiritual trash: Hindus, homos, and gay pulp -- Christopher Isherwood, gay liberation, and the question of style
- Control code
- 814529365
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 203 pages
- Isbn
- 9780816679133
- Isbn Type
- (hc : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2012038000
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)814529365
- Label
- Middlebrow queer : Christopher Isherwood in America, Jaime Harker
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Introduction: Christopher and his readers -- Isherwood's American incarnation and the gay protest novel -- "Too queer to be Quaker": gay protest and camp -- "Fagtrash": pulp paperbacks and Cold War queer readers -- Sixties' literature and the ascension of camp middlebrow -- "A delicious purgatory": sex and "salvation" -- Secret agents and gay identity: Cold War queerness -- Spiritual trash: Hindus, homos, and gay pulp -- Christopher Isherwood, gay liberation, and the question of style
- Control code
- 814529365
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 203 pages
- Isbn
- 9780816679133
- Isbn Type
- (hc : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2012038000
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)814529365
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