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Lesbian Modernism : Censorship, Sexuality and Genre Fiction / Elizabeth English
Titre : Lesbian Modernism : Censorship, Sexuality and Genre Fiction Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Elizabeth English, Auteur Editeur : Edinburgh : EDINBURGH Année de publication : 2017 Importance : 220 p. Format : 23 cm x 15.5 cm. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4744-2449-3 Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : 820 Littérature de langue anglaise Résumé : Elizabeth English 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. English introduces hitherto neglected women writers from diverse backgrounds and draws on archival material examined here for the first time to remap the topography of 1920s-1940s lesbian literature and to reevaluate the definition of lesbian modernism. Lesbian Modernism : Censorship, Sexuality and Genre Fiction [texte imprimé] / Elizabeth English, Auteur . - Edinburgh : EDINBURGH, 2017 . - 220 p. ; 23 cm x 15.5 cm.
ISBN : 978-1-4744-2449-3
Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng)
Index. décimale : 820 Littérature de langue anglaise Résumé : Elizabeth English 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. English introduces hitherto neglected women writers from diverse backgrounds and draws on archival material examined here for the first time to remap the topography of 1920s-1940s lesbian literature and to reevaluate the definition of lesbian modernism. Réservation
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