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Lesbian modernism : censorship, sexuality and genre fiction /
"The first book-length study to explore the importance of genre for the body of literature we call lesbian modernism. 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 reprisa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The first book-length study to explore the importance of genre for the body of literature we call lesbian modernism. 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. Modernist experimentation has often been seen as a response to this problem, but English breaks new ground by arguing that popular genre fictions offered a creative strategy against the threat of detection and punishment. Her study examines a range of responses to this dilemma by offering illuminating close readings of fantasy, crime, and historical fictions written by both mainstream and modernist authors. English introduces hitherto neglected women writers from diverse backgrounds and draws on archival material examined here for the first time to remap the topography of 1920s-1940s lesbian literature and to reevaluate the definition of lesbian modernism."-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 220 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-214) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780748693740 0748693742 |