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...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Language notes: | English. |
| Imprint: | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015] |
| Series: | Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Foul minds and foul mouths: censorship and a turn to genre fiction
- Part I: Fantasy. Part I introduction
- 1. 'The book is a sort of touch-stone to other people': sexology, the invert and desire in Katharine Burdekin's utopian fiction
- 2. 'Ghost desire': the lesbian occult and Natalie Clifford Barney's The one who is legion or A.D.'s after-life
- Part II: History. Part II introduction
- 3. 'Spiritual progenitors' and the historical biographies of Margaret Goldsmith and Mary Gordon
- 4. 'I dislike the correct thing in clothes': Virginia Woolf's Orlando: a biography and the cross-dressing historical romance
- Part III: Crime. Part III introduction
- 5. 'Murder is a queer crime': the lesbian criminal and female communities in detective fiction
- 6. 'Lizzie Borden took an axe': repetition and heterosexual crime in Gertrude Stein's detective fiction
- Coda.