| Description |
1 online resource (332 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-314) and index. |
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List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Citizens, Aliens, and Traitors; 2. The Dreyfus Affair; 3. Secret Dossiers; 4. Truth Breathing Down the Neck of Fiction; 5. The Ganelon Type; 6. Strictly a Jewish Show; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
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 espionage cases involving Jews, homosexuals, or Communists, Carlston connects gay men's fascination with spying to larger debates about the making and contestation of ... |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Literature and society.
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Literature and society. |
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Treason in literature.
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Treason in literature. |
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Espionage -- History.
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Espionage. |
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History. |
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Liminality in literature.
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Liminality in literature. |
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Homosexuality and literature.
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Homosexuality and literature. |
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Jews in literature.
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Jews in literature. |
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Communists in literature.
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Communists in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Carlston, Erin G., 1962- Double agents. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2013 9780231136723 (DLC) 2012039622 (OCoLC)810947010 |
| ISBN |
9780231510097 (electronic book) |
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0231510098 (electronic book) |
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9780231136730 |
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9780231136723 |
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