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Middlebrow queer, Christopher Isherwood in America, Jaime Harker

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Middlebrow queer, Christopher Isherwood in America, Jaime Harker
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200) and index
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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Middlebrow queer
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Jaime Harker
Sub title
Christopher Isherwood in America
Table Of Contents
Introduction: Christopher and his readers -- Isherwood's American incarnation and the gay protest novel -- "Too queer to be Quaker" : gay protest and camp -- "Fagtrash" : pulp paperbacks and Cold War queer readers -- Sixties' literature and the ascension of camp middlebrow -- "A delicious purgatory" : sex and "salvation" -- Secret agents and gay identity : Cold War queerness -- Spiritual trash : Hindus, homos, and gay pulp -- Christopher Isherwood, gay liberation, and the question of style
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