Brigid Brophy : avant-garde writer, critic, activist / edited by Richard Canning and Gerri Kimber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Canning, Richard, editor.

Kimber, Gerri, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors--England--Biography.

Women authors.

Women political activists--England--Biography.

Women political activists.

Brophy, Brigid, 1929-1995.

Brophy, Brigid.

Brophy, Brigid, 1929-1995--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 264 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Embodying the Fragments: A Reflection on the Reluctant Auto-Biography of Brigid Brophy

2 Brigid Brophy’s Paradoxical World of Childhood

3 Introduction to ‘The Librarian and the Novel’

4 The Librarian and the Novel: A Writer’s View

5 Penetrating (the) Prancing Novelist

6 ‘Shavian that she was’

7 ‘Il faut que je vive’: Brigid Brophy and Animal Rights

8 Brigid Brophy’s Phenomenology of Sex in Flesh and The Snow Ball

9 Letter to Brigid

10 Encoding Love: Hidden Correspondence in the Fiction of Brigid Brophy and Iris Murdoch

11 ‘Heads and Boxes’: A Prop Art Exhibition Collaboration by Brigid Brophy and Maureen Duffy

12 Prancing Novelist and Black and White: Experiments in Biography

13 ‘Mo nster Cupid’: Brophy, Camp and The Snow Ball

14 ‘A Felicitous Day for Fish’

15 The Dissenting Feminist

16 A Certain Detachment?

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Oct 2020).

ISBN:

9781474462686

1474462685

OCLC:

1306541579