Alan Hollinghurst: Writing Under the Influence
Alan Hollinghurst: Writing Under the Influence
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Abstract
Focusing through the concept of influence, this collection considers the entire breadth of Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker Prize-winning writing. It addresses critical issues threaded through the work of Britain’s most important contemporary novelist. Chapters encompass 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, translation and economics. Revealing the often troubled tissue of weighty affect that lies beneath the poise and control of Hollinghurst’s writing, this book addresses readers interested in question of subjectivity, history and desire, as well as those curious about biography and literary experimentation. Alongside contributions by distinguished international critics, the book includes an unpublished interview with Hollinghurst and the eminent biographer Hermione Lee. With critical energy and creative flair, Alan Hollinghurst: Writing Under the Influence provokes a new account of Hollinghurst’s work that is both authoritative and innovative.
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Front Matter
- Introduction: a dialogue on influence
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Abjuring innocence: Hollinghurst’s poetry
Bernard O’Donoghue
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The touch of reading in Hollinghurst’s early prose
Angus Brown
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Poetry, parody, porn and prose
Michèle Mendelssohn
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Race, empire and The Swimming-Pool Library
John McLeod
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The Stranger’s Child and The Aspern Papers: queering origin stories and questioning the visitable past
Julie Rivkin
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Ostentatiously discreet: bisexual camp in The Stranger’s Child
Joseph Ronan
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Hollow auguries: eccentric genealogies in The Folding Star and The Spell
Robert L. Caserio
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Some properties of fiction: value and fantasy in Hollinghurst’s house of fiction
Geoff Gilbert
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Cinema in the library
Alan O’Leary
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Using Racine in 1990; or, translating theatre in time
Denis Flannery
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‘Who are you? What the fuck are you doing here?’: queer debates and contemporary connections
Kaye Mitchell
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What can I say?: secrets in fiction and biography
Hermione Lee andAlan Hollinghurst
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