Unexpected Pleasures – Parody, Queerness, and Genre in 20th–century British Fiction - Parody, Queerness, and Genre in 20th-century British Fiction

What are the sources—and the effects—of the pleasurable feeling of power that genre gives us? 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 about desire, resolution, and futurity.