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 within London's sexual geographies. Considering the intersection between gender, sexuality, and class, this study engages with spatial, queer, feminist, and Marxist theories as a means to reflect on London, queer historiography, and the relationship between subject and urban space.
Price: $75.00
Pages: 308
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Queer Studies
Publication Date:
04 April 2023
Trim Size: 9.45 X 6.10 in
ISBN: 9783837657340
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Júlia Braga Neves is a professor of English literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She completed her PhD in English Literature and Culture at Humboldt University in Berlin and King's College London and pursues research involving Gender and Queer Studies, London, literature and historiography, and Contemporary English literature.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 7
Acknowledgments 9
Preface 11
Introduction 15
Chapter 1 Sex(in') the City 27
Chapter 2 London is a Stage 59
Chapter 3 Panopticism, Domesticity and the Imaginary of Prison in Affinity 95
Chapter 4 "Thank God for the war" 121
Chapter 5 Neoliberal Ideology and the Homonormative City in The Swimming-Pool Library 153
Chapter 6 Thatcherism, Domesticity and the Production of Homonormative Spaces in The Line of Beauty 185
Chapter 7 Out of the Metropolis 215
Chapter 8 London and the Spatialization of Queer Histories 247
Final Words 281
Bibliography 289
