ISBN:
9781403964984
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (272 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Sapphic Modernities : Sexuality, Women and English Culture
DDC:
305.420942
Keywords:
Gays in popular culture
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Lesbians ; Identity
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Lesbians ; Social life and customs
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Aims to examine the representation of the lesbian in modernity from the multiple perspectives of literary, visual and cultural studies, seeking to answer: What range of 'sapphisms' circulated in Britain during the interwar period and what forms of cultural production enabled the lesbian's emergence and self-definition?
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part 1 Sexual Geographies: Circulation and Mobility; Chapter 1 The Sapphist in the City: Lesbian Modernist Paris and Sapphic Modernity; Chapter 2 Romaine Brooks and the Future of Sapphic Modernity; Chapter 3 "The Woman Who Does": A Melbourne Motor Garage Proprietor; Part 2 The Sapphic Body in Space: Leisure, Commodity Culture, Domesticity; Chapter 4 Sapphic Smokers and English Modernities; Chapter 5 "Woman's Place Is the Home": Conservative Sapphic Modernity
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 6 Art Deco Hybridity, Interior Design, and Sexuality between the Wars: Two Double Acts: Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher/Eyre de Lanux and Evelyn WyldPart 3 In and Out of Place: History, Displacement, and Revision; Chapter 7 Impossible Objects: Waiting for the Revolution in Summer Will Show; Chapter 8 Virginia Woolf's Greek Lessons; Chapter 9 "A Sudden Orgy of Decadence": Writing about Sex between Women in the Interwar Popular Press; Part 4 Embracing Discursive Space: Re-Imagining Psychoanalysis and Spirituality
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 10 Edith Ellis, Sapphic Idealism, and The Lover's Calendar (1912)Chapter 11 Séances and Slander: Radclyffe Hall in 1920; Chapter 12 Telling It Straight: The Rhetorics of Conversion in Elizabeth Bowen's The Hotel and Freud's Psychogenesis; Chapter 13 Mary Butts's "Fanatical Pédérastie": Queer Urban Life in 1920s London and Paris; Notes on Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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