Elizabeth English

Lesbian Modernism

Censorship, Sexuality and Genre Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

Popular fiction is seen as a staple of late-twentieth-century and contemporary lesbian cultural production, however largely perceived as a recent development. Elizabeth English breaks new ground by providing a pre-history to lesbian cultural identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781474424493
• ISBN-10: 147442449X
• Artikelnr.: 47375337

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth English is a Senior Lecturer in English in the Department of Humanities, School of Education and Social Policy, Cardiff Metropolitan University. She is the author of Lesbian Modernism: Sexuality, Censorship and Genre Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Foul Minds and Foul Mouths: Censorship and a Turn to Genre Fiction
Part 1: Fantasy
Chapter 1: 'The book is a sort of touch-stone to other people': Sexology, The Invert and Desire in Katharine Burdekin's Utopian Fiction
Chapter 2: 'Ghost desire': The Lesbian Occult and Natalie Clifford Barney's The One Who is Legion or A.D.'s After-life
Part 2: History
Chapter 3: 'Spiritual progenitors' and the Historical Biographies of Margaret Goldsmith and Mary Gordon
Chapter 4: 'I dislike the correct thing in clothes': Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography and the Cross-Dressing Historical Romance
Part 3: Crime
Chapter 5: 'Murder is a queer crime': The Lesbian Criminal and Female Communities in Detective Fiction
Chapter 6: 'Lizzie Borden took an axe': Repetition and Heterosexual Crime in Gertrude Stein's Detective Fiction
Coda
Notes
Bibliography