Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America
Paperback (Trade paperback US) | Feb 2013 | University of Minnesota Press | 9780816679140 | 216pp | 215x139mm | RFB | AUD$29.99, NZD$34.99
Hardback | Feb 2013 | University of Minnesota Press | 9780816679133 | 216pp | 216x140mm | RFB | AUD$79.99, NZD$94.99
How could one write about gay life for the mainstream public in Cold War America? Many midcentury gay American writers, hampered by external and internal censors, never managed to do it. But Christopher Isherwood did, and what makes his accomplishment more remarkable is that while he was negotiating his identity as a gay writer, he was reinventing himself as an American one.