'Brigid Brophy, uniquely significant in postwar British literary, cultural and public intellectual life, is also its most egregiously neglected genius. This astonishing volume - which, as befits its subject, is honest, multifaceted and exploding with critical and imaginative intelligence - does a great and necessary service to her legacy, and to the history of twentieth-century letters.' Robert McKay, University of Sheffield Celebrates Brigid Brophy's life's work, its diversity, originality and achievement This book explores all aspects of Brophy's literary career, alongside contributions on…mehr
'Brigid Brophy, uniquely significant in postwar British literary, cultural and public intellectual life, is also its most egregiously neglected genius. This astonishing volume - which, as befits its subject, is honest, multifaceted and exploding with critical and imaginative intelligence - does a great and necessary service to her legacy, and to the history of twentieth-century letters.' Robert McKay, University of Sheffield Celebrates Brigid Brophy's life's work, its diversity, originality and achievement This book explores all aspects of Brophy's literary career, alongside contributions on animal rights, vegetarianism, anti-vivisectionism, humanism, feminism and sexual politics, not only celebrating Brophy's eclectic achievements but fully reflecting them. Contributors include literary critics, animal rights activists, Brophy's daughter, Kate Levey, and Brophy herself. Richard Canning has taught English Literature at five UK universities, most recently as a Professor of British and American Literature. He is currently Visiting Professor at the University of Buckingham. Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor in English at the University of Northampton, and Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society. Cover images: Brigid Brophy, kindly supplied by Kate Levey Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-6266-2 Barcode
Richard Canning has taught English Literature at five UK universities, mostly recently as a Professor of British and American Literature. He is the author or editor of nine books, including Gay Fiction Speaks and the Lambda Literary Editors' Choice Award-winning Hear Us Out (both Columbia University Press, 2000 and 2004). Gerri Kimber is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton and is co-editor of the annual yearbook Katherine Mansfield Studies. She is the deviser and series editor of the four-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2016) and the author of Katherine Mansfield: The View from France and A Literary Modernist: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story.
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Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Richard Canning 1. Embodying the Fragments: A Reflection on the Reluctant Auto-Biography of Brigid Brophy Phoebe Blatton 2. Brigid Brophy's Paradoxical World of Childhood Michael Bronski 3. Introduction to 'The Librarian and the Novel' John Dixon 4. The Librarian and the Novel: A Writer's View Brigid Brophy 5. Penetrating (the) Prancing Novelist Richard Canning 6. 'Shavian that she was' John Dixon 7. 'Il faut que je vive': Brigid Brophy and Animal Rights Gary Francione 8. Brigid Brophy's Phenomenology of Sex in Flesh and The Snow Ball Jonathan Gibbs 9. Letter to Brigid Rodney Hill 10. Encoding Love: Hidden Correspondence in the Fiction of Brigid Brophy and Iris Murdoch Miles Leeson 11. Heads and Boxes: A Prop Art Exhibition Collaboration by Brigid Brophy and Maureen Duffy Jill Longmate 12. Brigid Brophy's Prancing Novelist and Black and White: Experiments in Biography Peter Parker 13. 'Monster Cupid': Brophy, Camp, and The Snow Ball Allan Pero 14. A Felicitous Day for Fish Kim Stallwood 15. Brigid Brophy: The Dissenting Feminist Carole Sweeney 16. A Certain Detachment? Kate Levey Notes on Contributors Index
Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Richard Canning 1. Embodying the Fragments: A Reflection on the Reluctant Auto-Biography of Brigid Brophy Phoebe Blatton 2. Brigid Brophy's Paradoxical World of Childhood Michael Bronski 3. Introduction to 'The Librarian and the Novel' John Dixon 4. The Librarian and the Novel: A Writer's View Brigid Brophy 5. Penetrating (the) Prancing Novelist Richard Canning 6. 'Shavian that she was' John Dixon 7. 'Il faut que je vive': Brigid Brophy and Animal Rights Gary Francione 8. Brigid Brophy's Phenomenology of Sex in Flesh and The Snow Ball Jonathan Gibbs 9. Letter to Brigid Rodney Hill 10. Encoding Love: Hidden Correspondence in the Fiction of Brigid Brophy and Iris Murdoch Miles Leeson 11. Heads and Boxes: A Prop Art Exhibition Collaboration by Brigid Brophy and Maureen Duffy Jill Longmate 12. Brigid Brophy's Prancing Novelist and Black and White: Experiments in Biography Peter Parker 13. 'Monster Cupid': Brophy, Camp, and The Snow Ball Allan Pero 14. A Felicitous Day for Fish Kim Stallwood 15. Brigid Brophy: The Dissenting Feminist Carole Sweeney 16. A Certain Detachment? Kate Levey Notes on Contributors Index
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