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Why were white bourgeois gay male writers so interested in spies, espionage, and treason in the twentieth century? Erin G. Carlston believes such figures and themes were critical to exploring citizenship and its limits, requirements, and possibilities in the modern Western state. Through close readings of Marcel Proust's novels, W. H. Auden's poetry, and Tony Kushner's play Angels in America, which all reference real-life espionaage cases involving Jews, homosexuals, or Communists, Carlston connects gay men's fascination with spying to larger debates about the making and contestation of social identity.
Carlston argues that in the modern West, a distinctive position has been assigned to those perceived to be marginal to the nation because of non-visible religious, political, or sexual differences. Because these "invisible Others" existed somewhere between the wholly alien and the fully normative, they evoked acute anxieties about the security and cohesion of the nation-state. Incorporating readings of nonliterary cultural artifacts, such as trial transcripts, into her analysis, Carlston pinpoints moments in which national self-conceptions in France, England, and the United States grew unstable. Concentrating specifically on the Dreyfus affair in France, the defections of Communist spies in the U.K., and the Rosenberg case in the United States, Carlston directly links twentieth-century tensions around citizenship to the social and political concerns of three generations of influential writers.
Generations of readers have studied the biblical narrative framed by a range of differing theories and assumptions, but today s scholarly battle over David and Jonathan has been fought from three fronts: scripture, historical criticism, and queer theory and politics. The book argues that the power and ambiguity of the text has been determined by both the richness of the biblical story as a work of narrative art and the influence of reception history on critical agendas.
Spiralling work stress, junk food overload, and makeover madness all make staying healthy seem a taller order than ever before. The Rough Guide to Men's Health provides you with everything you need to know to ensure your lifestyle isn't at war with your health. Avoiding flabby waffle and well being puritanism, features include:
- Wherever, whenever - down-to-earth health advice whether you are in the kitchen, the bedroom, the gym, out on the town or simply looking in the mirror;
- How to improve performance - life coach strategies aimed at optimizing your outlook so you can feel your best every day;
- Wear and tear - identifying the causes of health problems and what to do about them, with "how it works" features on key problem areas like the back and gut and how to cope with sport's injuries, and;
- Tooling up: getting back into shape, sex and relationships, returning to work, and staying sane plus the low down on supplements.
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