Secrecy and sapphic modernism : reading romans à clef between the wars
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Secrecy and sapphic modernism : reading romans à clef between the wars
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-203) and index
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Description
Novels by significant Modernist authors can be described as romans a clef , providing insight into restrictions governing the representation of female homosexuality in the early twentieth century. Nair argues that key novels of the period represented same-sex desire through the encryption of personal references directed towards coterie audiences.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction: Screening Desire in the Sapphic Modernist Roman a Clef 'Moral Poison': Radclyffe Hall and The Well of Loneliness 'On her lips you kiss your own': Theorizing Desire in Djuna Barnes' Nightwood 'Truth & Fantasy': Virginia Woolf's Orlando as Sapphic Roman a Clef 'Gertrude, the world is a theatre for you': Staging the Self in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Conclusion: 'Two alert and vivid bodies', Desire and Salvation in H.D.'s HER References Index
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