This book maps Christopher Isherwood's intellectual and aesthetic reflections from the late 1930s through the late 1970s. Drawing on the queer theory of Eve Sedgwick and the ethical theory of Michel Foucault, Carr illuminates Isherwood's post-war development of a queer ethos through his focus on the aesthetic, social, and historical politics of the 1930s in his novels
Prater Violet
(1945),
The World in the Evening
(1954), and
Down There on a Visit
(1962), and in his memoir,
Christopher and His Kind: 1929–1939
(1976).