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Christopher Isherwood’s Bathroom
- Journal of Modern Literature
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 38, Number 4, Summer 2015
- pp. 110-125
- 10.2979/jmodelite.38.4.110
- Article
- Additional Information
Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel A Single Man functions as an elegy for a literary tradition that has been supplanted by a germophobic post-war American culture. Through the novel’s references to bathrooms and excrement, Isherwood reveals post-war America’s contempt for dirt to be related to its contempt for homosexuality and literary modernism.