Interrogating lesbian modernism : histories, forms, genres / edited by Elizabeth English, Jana Funke and Sarah Parker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

English, Elizabeth (Lecturer in English), editor.

Funke, Jana, 1982- editor.

Parker, Sarah, 1985- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lesbianism in literature.

Modernism (Literature)--History.

Modernism (Literature).

Lesbian authors--History.

Lesbian authors.

Gay people' writings--History and criticism.

Gay people' writings.

Lesbians' writings--History and criticism--Congresses.

Lesbians' writings.

Lesbian authors--History--Congresses.

Modernism (Literature)--History--Congresses.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 293 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Makiko Minow coined the phrase 'lesbian modernism' in 1989. Since then, scholars of lesbian modernism have produced crucial work to critique and expand the modernist canon. At the same time, there has been ongoing critical debate about what constitutes a lesbian modernist text, who counts as a lesbian modernist author, and how lesbian modernism relates to queer and trans modernism. This edited volume presents twelve newly commissioned chapters that reassess and interrogate the meanings, uses and limitations of lesbian modernism by exploring a broad range of authors, genres and histories. Individual chapters investigate what work the concept of 'lesbian modernism' has done in the past, how its boundaries have been defined and contested, and what voices have been included and excluded. As a whole, the book demonstrates how the concept of lesbian modernism can be mobilised in new and meaningful ways to continue to inform and enrich modernist studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FIGURES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Notes on Contributors

INTRODUCTION

1 LOVING/HATING/LOVING LESBIAN MODERNISM

2 LESBIAN-TRANS-FEMINIST MODERNISM: CHRISTOPHER ST. JOHN, TRANS MASCULINITY AND CELIBATE FRIENDSHIP IN HUNGERHEART: THE STORY OF A SOUL

3 THE ONTOLOGY OF THE PLURISINGULAR BODY IN NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY'S THE ONE WHO IS LEGION OR A.D.'S AFTER-LIFE

PART II GENRES AND FORMS

4 IMAGINATIVE BIOGRAPHY: MARGARET GOLDSMITH, VITA SACKVILLE-WEST AND LESBIAN HISTORICAL LIFE WRITING

5 MODERNISM AT THE MARGINS: MARIETTE LYDIS'S PRINT PORTFOLIO LESBIENNES

6 INVERTING THE GAZE: RADCLYFFE HALL AND MALE SEXUAL IDENTITIES

PART III RELATIONALITY, NETWORKS AND KINSHIP

7 WRITING WIDOWS OF LESBIAN MODERNISM

8 LESBIANISM IN/AND THE FAMILY: EVA GORE-BOOTH AND THE MAKING OF FEMINIST MODERNISM

9 LESBIAN JOYCE

PART IV HISTORIES AND TEMPORALITIES

10 ELIZABETHAN LOVEMAKING: COLLEGE ROMANCE AND QUEER ANACHRONISM IN EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY'S THE LAMP AND THE BELL

11 THE LESBIAN HERSTORY ARCHIVES AT FIFTY

12 HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF LESBIAN MODERNIST SEXUAL HISTORIES

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Mar 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-8607-X

OCLC:

1390766910