{"product_id":"unexpected-pleasures-lauryl-tucker-9781835538807","title":"Unexpected Pleasures: Parody, Queerness, and Genre in 20th-Century British Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat are the sources--and the effects--of the pleasurable feeling of power that genre gives us? What happens to that power when conventionality tips into parody? In this book, Lauryl Tucker explores the connection between genre parody and queerness in twentieth-century British fiction. Teasing out the parodic sensibility of writers including Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Sam Selvon, Dorothy Sayers, Stella Gibbons, and Zadie Smith, \u003ci\u003eUnexpected Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e offers an innovative reading of works that seem to excessively obey the rules of genre. By oversupplying the pleasurable sense of knowledge and the illusion of predictive power that genre confers, these works play with readerly expectation in order to expose and queer a broader set of assumptions \u003cbr\u003eabout desire, resolution, and futurity. \u003ci\u003eUnexpected Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e expands on a burgeoning critical interest in genre as an interpretive tool, and further diversifies the archive and methodology of queer critique. Gathering a surprising group of writers together, it reveals new throughlines between middlebrow and highbrow, and among modernist, mid-century, and contemporary literature. This book will interest scholars of \u003cbr\u003emodernist and contemporary British literature, as well as readers interested in narrative and queer theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lauryl Tucker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1835538800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781835538807\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Clemson University Press W\/ Lup\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d","brand":"Lauryl Tucker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48014061142271,"sku":"9781835538807","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_39d67f6e-7913-4e8b-b265-9b479a55ee9a.jpg?v=1767746486","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unexpected-pleasures-lauryl-tucker-9781835538807","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}