Lesbian Modernism

Elizabeth English

earliest edition we have, 2014 Edinburgh University Press, 2014

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 strat...

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Lesbian Modernism edition · 2017 · Edinburgh University Press · 224 pages · 9781474424493
Lesbian Modernism edition · 2014 · Edinburgh University Press · 9780748693740
Lesbian Modernism edition · 2014 · Edinburgh University Press · 224 pages · 9780748693733

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