"Unexpected Pleasures explores the connection between genre parody and queerness in twentieth-century British fiction, showing how authors from Virginia Woolf to Zadie Smith, in excessively obeying the rules of genre, play with readerly expectation...
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"Unexpected Pleasures explores the connection between genre parody and queerness in twentieth-century British fiction, showing how authors from Virginia Woolf to Zadie Smith, in excessively obeying the rules of genre, play with readerly expectation in order to queer a broader set of assumptions about desire, resolution, and futurity"--
"By himself, reading, a naked man": Orlando and the dutiful biographer -- Flush: Good dog, bad reading -- The epistemology of the woodshed: Stella Gibbons's gothic progress -- "Whatever do you expect?" Elizabeth Bowen's queer gothic -- "That type of fellar": Desire and mimicry in Sam Selvon's early London fiction -- Evolutionary generics: Miraculous conventions in Zadie Smith's White Teeth -- "Things made in the shape of things": Dorothy Sayers's queer detection -- "Too soon?" Campus fictions, self-parody, and postcritique.