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Lesbian Empire : Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties by Gay Wachman (2001, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRutgers University Press

ISBN-100813529425

ISBN-139780813529424

eBay Product ID (ePID)1816829

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

Publication NameLesbian Empire : Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2001

SubjectFeminism & Feminist Theory, Women Authors, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, LGBT, Lgbt Studies / Lesbian Studies

TypeTextbook

AuthorGay Wachman

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN00-045683

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal823/.912099206643

SynopsisGay Wachman provides a critical new reading of sexually radical fiction by British women in the years during and after the First World War. She contrasts works by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, Rose Allatini, and Evadne Price with more politically and narratively conservative novels by Radclyffe Hall and Clemence Dane. These writers, she states, formed part of an alternative modernist tradition that functioned both within and against the repressive ideology of the British Empire, using fantasy as a means of reshaping and critiquing a world fragmented by war. Wachman places at the center of this tradition Sylvia Townsend Warner's achievement in undermining the inhibitions that faced women writing about forbidden love. She discusses Warner's use of crosswriting to transpose the otherwise unrepresentable lives of invisible lesbians into narratives about gay men, destabilizing the borders of race, class, and gender and challenging the codes of expression on which imperialist patriarchy and capitalism depended., A critical reading of sexually radical fiction by British women in the years during and after World War I. Gay Wachman examines work by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf and Radclyffe Hall, along with the less well known Clemence Dane, Rose Allatini and Evadne Price. These writers, she states, created a modernist literary tradition -one that functioned both within and against the repressive ideology of the British Empire.

LC Classification NumberPR888.L46W34 2001