Alan Hollinghurst

This groundbreaking, cross-generic collection is the
first to consider the entire breadth of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker
Prize-winning writing. Focused through the concept of influence, the
volume addresses critical issues surrounding the work of Britain's most
important contemporary novelist. It encompasses provocative and timely
subjects ranging from gay visual cultures and representations, to
Victorian, modernist and contemporary literature, as well as race and
empire, theatre and cinema, eros and economics. The book reveals the
fascinating intellectual and affective matter that lies beneath the
polished control and dazzling style of Hollinghurst's work. Alongside
contributions by distinguished British and American critics, the book
includes an unpublished interview with Hollinghurst. Alan Hollinghurst: Writing under the influence
uses a creative range of critical approaches to provide the most
authoritative and innovative account available of Hollinghurst's works.
Introduction : a dialogue on influence / Michèle Mendelssohn and Denis Flannery -- Abjuring innocence : Hollinghurst's poetry / Bernard O'Donoghue -- The touch of reading in Hollinghurst's early prose / Angus Brown -- Poetry, parody, porn and prose / Michèle Mendelssohn -- Race, empire and The Swimming-Pool Library / John McLeod -- The Stranger's Child and The Aspern Papers : queering origin stories and questioning the visitable past / Julie Rivkin -- Ostentatiously discreet : bisexual camp in The Stranger's Child / Joseph Ronan -- Hollow auguries : eccentric genealogies in The Folding star and The Spell / Robert L. Caserio -- Some properties of fiction : value and fantasy in Hollinghurst's house of fiction / Geoff Gilbert -- Cinema in the library / Alan O'Leary -- Using Racine in 1990 ; or, translating theatre in time / Denis Flannery -- 'Who are you? What are you doing here?' : queer debates and contemporary connections / Kaye Mitchell -- What can I say? : secrets in fiction and biography / Hermoine Lee interviews Alan Hollinghurst