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Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams: Desire Over Protest

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Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams: Desire Over Protest

Author:   Michael S. D. Hooper
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781107015364


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   30 April 2012
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   Michael S. D. Hooper
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
ISBN:  

9781107015364


ISBN 10:   1107015367
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   30 April 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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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).

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