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Queer Communism and the Ministry of Loveseeks to transform current narratives of midcentury literary, cultural, and intellectual history from a queer Marxist perspective.

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A new reading of the sexual politics of 1930s leftist prose genresIt is well known that many of the best-known queer writers of the 1930s were involved with leftist politics. Why, then, has there been no extended examination of this striking juncture of dissident sex and socialism? Queer Communism and the Ministry of Love addresses this question, among others, to transform current narratives of midcentury literary, cultural, and intellectual history from a queer Marxist perspective. It provides a unique exploration of the transnational formation of queer leftist writing in 1930s Britain informed by detailed research on Weimar Berlin, Civil War Spain and the Soviet Union.Key Features:Rearticulates major figures with lesser known authorsA unique exploration of the transnational formation of queer leftist writing in 1930s Britain informed by detailed research on Weimar Berlin, British , and the Soviet Union A queer Marxist critique of anti-fascist fiction and the sexual politics of midcentury Britain Redefines our understanding of 1930s literary history, queer theory, and Marxism

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'Salton-Cox makes an exciting contribution to our understanding of the British literary left in the 1930s. Tracing the intricate crossings of queer sexualities, middle-class class identities, and proletarian politics, this study turns a queer eye on leftist writers both canonical and lesser-known, yielding fresh critical insights into this unique period.'Tyrus Miller, University of California-IrvineThe first book-length study to provide a detailed examination of a distinctive crossroads in the history of the left Queer Communism reconstructs queer writers' engagements with a series of wide-ranging Marxist aesthetic debates, social forms and political strategies. Through case studies of Christopher Isherwood and Sylvia Townsend Warner, Salton-Cox argues that queer writing of the 1930s was deeply embedded in a network of transnational leftist formations stretching across Weimar Germany, Soviet Russia, Spain and China. Probing the left's mounting heteronormativity in the late 30s and 40s in chapters on Katharine Burdekin and George Orwell, Queer Communism also traces the genesis of post-war sexual politics in Popular Front antifascism. Salton-Cox's study transforms current narratives of mid-century literary, cultural and intellectual history from a queer Marxist perspective. The first book-length study to provide a detailed examination of the distinctive crossroads in the history of the leftGlyn Salton-Cox is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.Cover image:

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'Salton-Cox makes an exciting contribution to our understanding of the British literary left in the 1930s. Tracing the intricate crossings of queer sexualities, middle-class class identities, and proletarian politics, this study turns a queer eye on leftist writers both canonical and lesser-known, yielding fresh critical insights into this unique period.'Tyrus Miller, University of California-IrvineThe first book-length study to provide a detailed examination of a distinctive crossroads in the history of the leftQueer Communism reconstructs queer writers' engagements with a series of wide-ranging Marxist aesthetic debates, social forms and political strategies. Through case studies of Christopher Isherwood and Sylvia Townsend Warner, Salton-Cox argues that queer writing of the 1930s was deeply embedded in a network of transnational leftist formations stretching across Weimar Germany, Soviet Russia, Spain and China. Probing the left's mounting heteronormativity in the late 30s and 40s in chapters on Katharine Burdekin and George Orwell, Queer Communism also traces the genesis of post-war sexual politics in Popular Front antifascism. Salton-Cox's study transforms current narratives of mid-century literary, cultural and intellectual history from a queer Marxist perspective. The first book-length study to provide a detailed examination of the distinctive crossroads in the history of the leftGlyn Salton-Cox is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.Cover image:

Author Biography

Glyn Salton-Cox is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Amongst other publications, his work has appeared in Modern Language Quarterly, Critical Quarterly, Comparative Literature, and Twentieth-Century Communism, and is forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s and The Cambridge History of 1930s British Literature. He is currently working on a monograph on the cultural, literary, and intellectual history of the lumpenproletariat.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Perverts of Modernity 1 Boy Meets Camera: Christopher Isherwood and Sergei Tretiakov 2 Sylvia Townsend Warner's Queer Vanguardism 3 The Hymning of Heterosexuality: Katharine Burdekin and the Popular Front 4 Orwell's Hope in the Proles Coda: A Little Window for the Bourgeoisie Notes Index.

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...an important book that deserves to be read widely by scholars of mid-century British literature and culture. Its incisive engagement with canonical and non-canonical writers testifies to a new wave of interest in the literary and artistic culture of the 1930s. Finally, Salton-Cox's book can help us explain why the politics of the 1930s look queer from the perspective of today, and why that queerness should matter to us.--Benjamin Kohlmann "The Review of English Studies"A deeply impressive, ambitious and significant work of criticism which succeeds, triumphantly, in addressing both canonical and rather more neglected texts with élan.-- "Leo Mellor, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge"Salton-Cox makes an exciting contribution to our understanding of the British literary left in the 1930s. Tracing the intricate crossings of queer sexualities, middle-class class identities and proletarian politics, this study turns a queer eye on leftist writers both canonical and lesser-known, yielding fresh critical insights into this unique period.-- "Tyrus Miller, University of California-Irvine"

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Queer Communism and the Ministry of Love demonstrates how literary scholarship can make the literature and art of the 1930s newly compelling to contemporary readers and criticsEL an important book that deserves to be read widely by scholars of mid-century British literature and culture. -- Benjamin Kohlmann, The Review of English Studies

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The first book-length study to provide a detailed examination of a distinctive crossroads in the history of the left

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Provides a detailed examination of a distinctive crossroads in the history of the left Queer Communism reconstructs queer writers' engagements with a series of wide-ranging Marxist aesthetic debates, social forms and political strategies. Through case studies of Christopher Isherwood and Sylvia Townsend Warner, Salton-Cox argues that queer writing of the 1930s was deeply embedded in a network of transnational leftist formations stretching across Weimar Germany, Soviet Russia, Spain and China. Probing the left's mounting heteronormativity in the late 30s and 40s in chapters on Katharine Burdekin and George Orwell, Queer Communism also traces the genesis of post-war sexual politics in Popular Front antifascism. Salton-Cox's study transforms current narratives of mid-century literary, cultural and intellectual history from a queer Marxist perspective. Key Features: Rearticulates major figures with lesser known authors A unique exploration of the transnational formation of queer leftist writing in 1930s Britain informed by detailed research on Weimar Berlin, British , and the Soviet Union A queer Marxist critique of anti-fascist fiction and the sexual politics of midcentury Britain Redefines our understanding of 1930s literary history, queer theory, and Marxism

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Rearticulates major figures with lesser known authors A unique exploration of the transnational formation of queer leftist writing in 1930s Britain informed by detailed research on Weimar Berlin, British , and the Soviet Union A queer Marxist critique of anti-fascist fiction and the sexual politics of midcentury Britain Redefines our understanding of 1930s literary history, queer theory, and Marxism

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A unique exploration of the transnational formation of queer leftist writing in 1930s Britain informed by detailed research on Weimar Berlin, Civil War Spain, and the Soviet Union A queer Marxist critique of anti-fascist fiction and the sexual politics of midcentury Britain Redefines our understanding of 1930s literary history, queer theory, and Marxism

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Queer Theory; 1930s Writing; Twentieth-Century Literary and Cultural History; History of Communism; Literary Criticism and Theory.

Details ISBN1474454852 Pages 240 Publisher Edinburgh University Press Year 2019 ISBN-10 1474454852 ISBN-13 9781474454858 Publication Date 2019-11-30 Short Title Queer Communism and the Ministry of Love Language English Format Paperback DEWEY 820.9/353 UK Release Date 2019-11-30 Imprint Edinburgh University Press Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2019-11-30 Author Glyn Salton-Cox Subtitle Sexual Revolution in British Writing of the 1930s Audience General AU Release Date 2020-03-04 Alternative 9781474423311 We've got this

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