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Lesbian modernism : censorship, sexuality and genre fiction

Summary: 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.--Provided by publisher.

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ISBN: 0748693734
ISBN: 9780748693733
ISBN: 0748693742
ISBN: 9780748693740
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 220 pages).
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Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]

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General Note:	CatMonthString:march.18 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-214) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.