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 e…
Novels by significant Modernist authors can be described as romans à 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 e…
Secrecy and Sapphic Modernism takes an exciting new approach to women's writing of the early twentieth century. It argues that novels by authors including Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein can be productively described as romans clef (or 'novels with a key'), which…
"Novels by significant Modernist authors can be described asromans à 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 e…
Virginia Woolf: lesbian readings
by Barrett, Eileen, Cramer, Patricia
fromThe cutting edge
Virginia Woolf: lesbian readings
by Barrett, Eileen, Cramer, Patricia
fromCutting edge (New York, N.Y.)
Virginia Woolf: lesbian readings
by Barrett, Eileen, Cramer, Patricia
fromCutting edge (New York, N.Y.)
Noble, accomplished, wealthy, self-sacrificing, and honourable, Stephen Gordon is the perfect hero,' says Rebecca O'Rourke. But Stephen is a woman, and a lesbian. Here is an indication of the tantalizing complexity of The Well of Loneliness. Banned for obscenity when first publi…