Unexpected pleasures : parody, queerness & genre in 20th-century British fiction /
"Unexpected Pleasures explores the connection between genre parody and queerness in twentieth-century British fiction, showing how authors from Virginia Woolf to Zadie Smith, in excessively obeying the rules of genre, play with readerly expectation in order to queer a broader set of assumptions...
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| Language: | English |
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Clemson, SC :
Clemson University Press,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- "By himself, reading, a naked man": Orlando and the dutiful biographer
- Flush: Good dog, bad reading
- The epistemology of the woodshed: Stella Gibbons's gothic progress
- "Whatever do you expect?" Elizabeth Bowen's queer gothic
- "That type of fellar": Desire and mimicry in Sam Selvon's early London fiction
- Evolutionary generics: Miraculous conventions in Zadie Smith's White Teeth
- "Things made in the shape of things": Dorothy Sayers's queer detection
- "Too soon?" Campus fictions, self-parody, and postcritique.