ISBN:
9781009280761
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (302 pages)
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DDC:
306.76/63092
Abstract:
The ground-breaking first collection of essays on Anne Lister, featuring both established and new scholars, a screenwriter and a novelist.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1 Caroline Gonda in Conversation with Helena Whitbread -- Part I 'Nature was in an odd freak when she made me': Lister, Sexuality, Gender and Natural History -- Chapter 2 A Regular Oddity: Natural History and Anne Lister's Queer Theory of Tradition -- The Past, On Time -- It Was All Nature -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Anne Lister's Search for the Anatomy of Sex -- Notes -- Part II 'My spirit's oil': Lister Reading, Lister Writing -- Chapter 4 'My Use of the Word Love': Lister, Language and the Dictionary -- Lister's Lookups -- Novel Denominations -- A Legacy in Words -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Self-Conscious Closeting and Paradoxical Writing in Anne Lister's Diaries -- Spatial Tropes -- Self-Conscious and Unconscious Closets -- Domestic and Physical Closets -- Thresholds and Risk-Taking -- Diary Code as Split Paratext? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part III 'Born at Halifax': Lister's Politics, Local and Global -- Chapter 6 Anne Lister's Politics -- Notes -- Chapter 7 'Building Castles in the Air': Anne Lister and Associational Life -- Under Existing Rules: Women in the Lit. and Phil. -- The Late 'Lit. and Phil.' Movement and Shifting Modes of Participation -- 'This my Native Town': Anne Lister's Investment in Halifax -- Castles in the Air: Imagining Female Participation -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Anne Lister's Home -- Introduction -- Shibden Hall's History -- Anne Lister's Inheritance -- Anne Lister's Alterations to Shibden Hall -- Anne Lister's Landscape -- Anne Lister's Collections -- Interpreting Anne Lister at Shibden -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part IV 'Curious scenes': Lister's Travels.
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