Anita Brookner

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Anita Brookner is a contemporary British novelist and French Romantic art historian known to write boring books about lonely, single women. I argue that Brookner’s reception or ‘first reading’ is a misreading effected by the way in which contemporaneity and heterosexuality are produced in the literary marketplace. Inspired by an array of nineteenth-century intertextual references in the Brookner novel, I draw on French aestheticism to produce a new epistemology of the Brookner text. I stage a cast of ‘Romantic Personae’ including the Military Man, the Aesthete, the Dandy and the Flaneur as narrative devices which provide an alternative methodology for reading Brookner. The result is a new mode of literary criticism called ‘performative romanticism.’ The outcome is a queering of the Brookner text.

Anita Brookner

Thursday, February 24, 2011

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