The Traumatic Celebration of Beauty in Alan Hollinghurst’s Fiction

by Jose M. Yebra

Book cover: The Traumatic Celebration of Beauty in Alan Hollinghurst’s Fiction

Extent: 199 pages

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality, Literary Studies

Series: Anglistische Forschungen

Series volume number: 474

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(August 2022)

ISBN: 9783825349660

6.5 x 9.65 inches

Price: $46.00

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‘The Traumatic Celebration of Beauty in Alan Hollinghurst’s Fiction’ is the first monograph to delve into all the novels published by the writer so far: from his extraordinary debut, ‘The Swimming-Pool Library’ (1988), to ‘The Sparsholt’s Affair’ (2017). The chapters follow a chronological order in Hollinghurst’s production. However, all of them address the complex interaction of traumatic and celebratory discourses as voiced by gay and queer characters ranging from the twentieth to the early twenty-first century. This timely volume is intended to explore the limits of same-sex desire and identity in Hollinghurst’s six novels drawing on trauma theory and intertextuality.

  • By (author) Jose M Yebra