Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams - Couverture souple

Hooper, Michael S. D.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1107533007 ISBN 13 : 9781107533004

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Michael S. D. Hooper reverses the recent trend of regarding Tennessee Williams as fundamentally a social writer following the discovery, publication and/or performance of plays from both ends of his career - the 'proletarian' apprentice years of Candles to the Sun and Not About Nightingales and the once overlooked final period of, amongst many other plays, The Red Devil Battery Sign. Hooper contends that recent criticism has exaggerated the political engagement and egalitarian credentials of a writer whose characters and situations revert to a reactionary politics of the individual dominated by the negotiation of sexual power. Directly, or more often indirectly, Williams' writing expresses social disaffection before glamorising the outcast and shelving thoughts of political change. Through detailed analysis of canonical texts the book sheds new light on Williams' work, as well as on the cultural and social life of mid-twentieth-century America.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael S. D. Hooper is Head of English at The Princess Helena College in Hertfordshire, England. He is the editor of the Methuen Student Drama edition of A Streetcar Named Desire (2009).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107533007
• ISBN 13: 9781107533004
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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