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Book SynopsisAn edited collection on Alan Hollinghurst, one of Britain's leading contemporary novelists with an outstanding international reputation.
Trade Review'Alan Hollinghurst is Britain's finest living novelist, and this volume brilliantly demonstrates why. Whether exploring his depictions of contemporary gay culture or teasing out his complex relations with precursors such as Ronald Firbank, E.M. Forster and Henry James, the essays assembled here do rich and rewarding justice to the 'line of beauty' that unfolds in Hollinghurst's wonderfully inventive writing.'
Mark Ford, University College London
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: A dialogue on influence - Denis Flannery and Michèle Mendelssohn
1. Hollinghurst's poetry - Bernard O'Donoghue
2. The touch of reading in Hollinghurst's early prose - Angus Brown
3. Poetry, parody, porn and prose - Michèle Mendelssohn
4. Race, empire and The Swimming Pool Library - John McLeod
5. The Stranger's Child and The Aspern Papers: queering origin stories and questioning the visitable past - Julie Rivkin
6. Ostentatiously discreet: bisexual camp in The Stranger's Child - Joseph Ronan
7. Hollow auguries: eccentric genealogies in The Folding Star and The Spell - Robert L. Caserio
8. Some properties of fiction: value and fantasy in Hollinghurst's house of fiction - Geoff Gilbert
9. Cinema in the library - Alan O'Leary
10. Using Racine in 1990: or, translating theatre in time - Denis Flannery
11. 'Who are you? What the fuck are you doing here?': queer debates and contemporary connections - Kaye Mitchell
12. What can I say? Secrets in fiction and biography - Hermione Lee interviews Alan Hollinghurst
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