Alexander McCall Smith: What W. H. Auden Can Do for You

UK 2022, 152 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Princeton University Press
Part self-portrait, part literary appreciation, the book tells how McCall Smith first came across the poet's work in the 1970s, while teaching law in Belfast, a violently divided city where Auden's »September 1, 1939,« a poem about the outbreak of World War II, strongly resonated. McCall Smith goes on to reveal how his life has related to and been inspired ... Weiterlesen

Júlia Braga Neves: London, Queer Spaces and Historiography in the Works of Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst

D 2022, 300 pp., brochure, € 61.70
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Queer spaces are crucial for the construction of LGBTQ+ communities, as they constitute places where queer subjects can create political, social, and affective alliances. Júlia Braga Neves shows how these spaces are pivotal for the representation of queer history in the fictional works by the British authors Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst, whose characters and plots are articulated through and ... Weiterlesen

Frank Wynne (ed.): Queer

LGBTQ Writing From Ancient Times to Yesterday. UK 2023, 624 pp, pb., € 27.95
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Head of Zeus
Drawing together writing from Catullus to Sappho, from Rimbaud to Anaïs Nin, and from Armistead Maupin to Alison Bechdel, translator Frank Wynne has collected a hundred of the finest works representing queer love by LGBTQ authors. »Queer« straddles the spectrum of queer experience, from Verlaine's sonnet in praise of his lover's anus and Emily Dickinson's exhortation of a woman's beauty, ... Weiterlesen

Ben Nichols: Same Old

Queer Theory, Literature and the Politics of Sameness. UK 2020, 222 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Manchester University Press
»Same Old« offers a rethinking of positions that have defined queer theory since its inception in the early 1990s. Steeped in philosophical and political commitments to »difference«, queer theoretical frameworks have tended to assume that ideas related to »sameness« only thwart and stymie queer forms of life. But this book takes a number of these ideas as its focus - ... Weiterlesen

Renato Miracco: Oscar Wilde's Italian Dream 1875-1900

IT 2020, English text, 160 pp. illustrated, hardback, € 39.95
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Damiani
In »Oscar Wilde's Italian Dream«, leading Wilde author Renato Miracco has combined written research with visual iconographic material - from Wilde's earliest heady trips to Italy as an Oxford student to his final days in France and Italy in 1900 after his incarceration in Reading Gaol, and his voluntary exile from Great Britain. Italy, and the larger world outside of ... Weiterlesen

Kai Linke: Good White Queers?

Racism and Whiteness in Queer U.S. Comics. D 2020, 330 pp., brochure, € 41.20
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How do white queer people portray our own whiteness? Can we, in the stories we tell about ourselves, face the uncomfortable fact that, while queer, we might still be racist? If we cannot, what does that say about us as potential allies in intersectional struggles? A careful analysis of »Dykes To Watch Out For« and »Stuck Rubber Baby« by queer ... Weiterlesen

Natalie M. Nobitz: History's Queer Stories

Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction. D 2018, 320 pp., brochure, € 41.11
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Critical analysis of the dramatization 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 M. Nobitz closes ... Weiterlesen

Ramzi Fawaz: The New Mutants

Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics. USA 2017, 368 pp., brochure, € 45.99
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New York University Press
The author takes a look at the politics behind superhero comics. Drawing on queer theory, Fawaz proposes that superhero comics from the mid-1950s onward have consistently reflected contemporary political debates around marginalized groups. In his view, post-WWII superheroes were »queered« by their portrayal as vulnerable and threatening outsiders. For instance, the Fantastic Four have got abilities that produce nonnormative, or ... Weiterlesen

Emily Midorikawa / Emma Claire Sweeney: A Secret Sisterhood

The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf. UK 2018, 336 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Quarto
»A Secret Sisterhood« uncovers the hidden literary friendships of the world's most respected female authors. Drawing on letters and diaries, some of which have never been published before, this book will reveal Jane Austen's bond with a family servant, the amateur playwright Anne Sharp, how Charlotte Brontë was inspired by the daring feminist Mary Taylor, the transatlantic relationship between George ... Weiterlesen

Michaela Koch: Discursive Intersexions

Daring Bodies Between Math, Medicine, and Memoir. D 2017, 290 pp., brochure, € 41.20
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Life narratives and fiction that represent experiences of hermaphroditism and intersex are at the core of Michaela Koch's study. The analyzed texts from the 19th to the early 21st century are embedded within and contrasted with contemporary debates in medicine, psychology, or activism to reveal the processes of negotiation about the meaning of hermaphroditism and intersex. This cultural studies-informed work ... Weiterlesen

Philip Eade: Evelyn Waugh

A Life Revisited. UK 2016, 432 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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Orion
Now, half a century after Waugh's death in 1966, Philip Eade has delivered a hugely entertaining biography that is both authoritative and full of new information, some of it sensational. Drawing on extensive unseen primary sources, Eade's book sheds new light on many of the key phases and themes of Waugh's life: his difficult relationship with his embarrassingly sentimental father, ... Weiterlesen

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Between Men

English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. USA 2016 (Reprint), 244 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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Columbia University Press
First published in 1985, »Between Men« was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critique that suppressed queer subjects and subjectivities. The author's work opened not only literature but also politics, society, and culture to broader investigations of power, sex, and desire, and to new possibilities of critical agency. With ... Weiterlesen

Viola Amato: Intersex Narratives

Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture. D 2016, 350 pp., brochure, € 51.39
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transcript - Queer Studies
This book explores representations of intersex - intersex persons, intersex communities, and intersex as a cultural concept and knowledge category - in contemporary North American literature and popular culture. The study turns its attention to the significant paradigm shift in the narratives on intersex that occurred within early 1990s intersex activism in response to biopolitical regulations of intersex bodies. Focusing ... Weiterlesen

Monica B. Pearl: AIDS Literature and Gay Identity

The Literature of Loss. UK 2015, 200 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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Taylor and Francis
This book discusses the significance of late 20th century and early 21st century American fiction written in response to the AIDS crisis and interrogates how sexual identity is depicted and constructed textually. Pearl develops Freudian psychoanalytic theory in a complex account of the ways in which grief is expressed and worked out in literature, showing how key texts from the ... Weiterlesen

Sandra Gerth: Goal Setting for Writers

D 2015, 39,000 words, E-Book (Format epub), € 2.99
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Ylva Verlag - Writers' Guide Series 1
Writing a book is on the bucket list of millions of people worldwide, but very few actually finish their book or manage to fulfill other writing dreams such as making a living as a writer. Many writers fail because they don't know how to set effective writing goals and how to develop an action plan that will turn their dreams ... Weiterlesen

James Grissom: Follies of God

Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog. USA 2015, 416 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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Knopf
This book makes almost magically clear how Tennessee Williams wrote, how he came to his visions of Amanda Wingfield, his Blanche DuBois, Stella Kowalski, Alma Winemiller, Lady Torrance, and the other characters of his plays that transformed the American theater of the mid-20th century. The book reveals the heart and soul of artistic inspiration and the collaboration between playwright and ... Weiterlesen

Edward White: The Tastemaker

Carl van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America. USA 2014, 380 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Embodying many of the contradictions of modern America, Van Vechten was a devoted husband with a coterie of boys by his side, a constant visitor of the Greenwich Village underground gay scene, a supporter of difficult art who also loved lowbrow entertainment, and a promoter of the Harlem Renaissance who believed in racial difference. He brought Gertrude Stein to the ... Weiterlesen

Frances Partridge: Love in Bloomsbury

UK/USA 2014, 240 pp. with b/w photographs, brochure, € 19.95
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I.B. Tauris
The Bloomsbury Group was as well known for its love affairs as for the work that was produced by its members. Of all the romantic entanglements, the love quadrangle between Frances Partridge, her husband Ralph Partridge, his first wife, Dora, and Lytton Strachey was one of the most notorious (Frances loved Ralph, who loved Dora, who loved Lytton, who loved ... Weiterlesen