Desire and Time in Modern English Fiction: 1919-2017

ISBN-13: 9780367490447 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 264 str.

Opis

Beginning with Somerset Maugham’s innovative South Seas novel and tales and Alfred Hitchcock’s gay-inflected revisiting of the Jack the Ripper sensation in silent film, this book considers the continuing presence of the past in future-oriented work of the 1930s and the Second World War.

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O autorze

Richard Dellamora is a widely published author on dissident male and female sexuality in Victorian and twentieth-century literature, including Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism (1990) and Radclyffe Hall, A Life in the Writing (2011), among other works and edited collections. Dellamora is Professor Emeritus in the departments of English and Cultural Studies and Fellow of the Centre for Theory, Politics, and Culture at Trent University (Canada). He currently lives and continues to write in Santa Monica, California. Dellamora completed an A. B. at Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.); a B. A.at Queens’ College, Cambridge University; and a Ph.D. in English at Yale University. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998.