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Alan Hollinghurst: Writing Under the Influence
Michele Mendelssohn (Ed.)
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Description for Alan Hollinghurst: Writing Under the Influence
Hardcover. An edited collection on Alan Hollinghurst, one of Britain's leading contemporary novelists with an outstanding international reputation. Editor(s): Mendelssohn, Michele; Flannery, Denis. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404.
This groundbreaking, cross-generic collection is the first to consider the entire breadth of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning writing. Focused through the concept of influence, the volume addresses critical issues surrounding the work of Britain's most important contemporary novelist. It encompasses provocative and timely subjects ranging from gay visual cultures and representations, to Victorian, modernist and contemporary literature, as well as race and empire, theatre and cinema, eros and economics. The book reveals the fascinating intellectual and affective matter that lies beneath the polished control and dazzling style of Hollinghurst's work. Alongside contributions by distinguished British and American critics, the ... Read more
This groundbreaking, cross-generic collection is the first to consider the entire breadth of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning writing. Focused through the concept of influence, the volume addresses critical issues surrounding the work of Britain's most important contemporary novelist. It encompasses provocative and timely subjects ranging from gay visual cultures and representations, to Victorian, modernist and contemporary literature, as well as race and empire, theatre and cinema, eros and economics. The book reveals the fascinating intellectual and affective matter that lies beneath the polished control and dazzling style of Hollinghurst's work. Alongside contributions by distinguished British and American critics, the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719097171
SKU
V9780719097171
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About Michele Mendelssohn (Ed.)
Michele Mendelssohn is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Deputy Director at the Rothermere American Institute Denis Flannery is Associate Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Leeds -- .
Reviews for Alan Hollinghurst: Writing Under the Influence
'Alan Hollinghurst is Britain's finest living novelist, and this volume brilliantly demonstrates why. Whether exploring his depictions of contemporary gay culture or teasing out his complex relations with precursors such as Ronald Firbank, E.M. Forster and Henry James, the essays assembled here do rich and rewarding justice to the 'line of beauty' that unfolds in Hollinghurst's wonderfully inventive writing.' ... Read more