{"product_id":"9781789620597-misreading-anita-brookner","title":"Misreading Anita Brookner","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAestheticism, Intertextuality and the Queer Nineteenth Century\u003cbr\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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40757847687265,"sku":"9781789620597","price":126.23,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_33802093.jpg?v=1744897944","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781789620597-misreading-anita-brookner","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}