Lesbian Modernism: Censorship, Sexuality and Genre Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781474424493 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str.

Elizabeth English

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Elizabeth English explores the aesthetic dilemma prompted by the censorship of Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness in 1928. Faced with legal and financial reprisals, women writers were forced to question how they might represent lesbian identity and desire.

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List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction, Elizabeth English, Jana Funke, Sarah Parker; Part I: Interrogating Lesbian/Queer/Trans Modernism; 1 Loving/Hating/Loving Lesbian Modernism, Jodie Medd; 2 Lesbian-Trans-Feminist Modernism: Christopher St. John, Trans Masculinity and Celibate Friendship in Hungerheart: The Story of a Soul, Jana Funke; 3 The Ontology of the Pluri-Singular Body in Natalie Clifford Barney’s The One Who is Legion or A.D.’s After-Life, Katharina Boeckenhoff; Part II: Genres and Forms; 4 Imaginative Biography: Margaret Goldsmith, Vita Sackville-West and Lesbian Historical Life Writing, Elizabeth English; 5 Modernism at the Margins: Mariette Lydis’s Print Portfolio Lesbiennes, Abbey Rees-Hales; 6 Inverting the Gaze: Radclyffe Hall and Male Sexual Identities, Steven Macnamara; Part III: Relationality, Networks and Kinship; 7 Writing Widows of Lesbian Modernism, Hannah Roche; 8 Lesbianism in/and the Family: Eva Gore-Booth and the Making of Feminist Modernism, Kathryn Holland; 9 Lesbian Joyce, Katherine Mullin; Part IV: Histories and Temporalities; 10 Elizabethan Lovemaking: College Romance and Queer Anachronism in Edna St. Vincent Millay’s The Lamp and the Bell, Sarah Parker; 11 The Lesbian Herstory Archives at Fifty, Robin Hackett; 12 Hidden in Plain Sight: The Reconstruction of Lesbian Modernist Sexual Histories, Jo Winning; Index.