Sex and Sensibility in the Novels of Alan Hollinghurst
Mark . Ed(S): Mathuray
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hardcover. Editor(s): Mathuray, Mark. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Winner of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) 2017 Edited Collection Prize
This book is a challenging and engaging collection of original essays on the novels of Alan Hollinghurst, Britain’s foremost gay writer and the English novel’s master stylist. The essays engage the precarious and shifting relationship between sex and literary sensibility in his novels and, thus, also attempt to establish the parameters of a new critical discourse for future research on Hollinghurst’s novel, queer theory and the contemporary literary representations of masculinity and sexuality. By coupling the consideration of Hollinghurst’s aesthetics, his sensuously evocative style, to ... Read more
Winner of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) 2017 Edited Collection Prize
This book is a challenging and engaging collection of original essays on the novels of Alan Hollinghurst, Britain’s foremost gay writer and the English novel’s master stylist. The essays engage the precarious and shifting relationship between sex and literary sensibility in his novels and, thus, also attempt to establish the parameters of a new critical discourse for future research on Hollinghurst’s novel, queer theory and the contemporary literary representations of masculinity and sexuality. By coupling the consideration of Hollinghurst’s aesthetics, his sensuously evocative style, to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
Number of Pages
202
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137337214
SKU
V9781137337214
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About Mark . Ed(S): Mathuray
Mark Mathuray is a Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK where he previously held a Leverhulme Fellowship. He has published various articles on religious discourses and sublime dissonances in African Literature and contemporary fiction and a monograph, On the Sacred in African Literature: Old Gods and New Worlds (Palgrave, 2009).
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