{"product_id":"misreading-anita-brookner-aestheticism-intertextuality-and-the-queer-nineteenth-century-9781802077001","title":"Misreading Anita Brookner: Aestheticism, Intertextuality and the Queer Nineteenth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Peta Mayer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Women Authors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnita Brookner was known for writing boring books about lonely, single women. \u003ci\u003eMisreading Anita Brookner\u003c\/i\u003e unlocks the mysteries of the famously depressed Brookner heroine by creating entirely new ways to read six Brookner novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on Brookner's legacy as a renowned historian of French Romantic art and on diverse intertextual sources from Charles Baudelaire to Henry James, Renée Vivien and Freud, this book argues that Brookner's solitary twentieth-century women can also be seen as variations of queer nineteenth-century male artist archetypes. Conjuring a cast of Romantic personae including the flâneur, the dandy, the aesthete, the military man, the queer, the analysand, the degenerate and the storyteller, it illuminates clusters of nineteenth-century behaviours which help decode the lives of Brookner's twentieth-century women. This exploration of Brookner's 'performative Romanticism' exposes new depths within her outsider introverts, who are revealed as a subversive blend of the historical, the contemporary, the masculine and the feminine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47779650797719,"sku":"9781802077001","price":6125.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781802077001.webp?v=1778038133","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/misreading-anita-brookner-aestheticism-intertextuality-and-the-queer-nineteenth-century-9781802077001","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}