Lesbian Modernism: Censorship, Sexuality and Genre Fiction

by Elizabeth English

Book Overview

The first book-length study to explore the importance of genre fiction for the body of literature we call lesbian modernism

Elizabeth English 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147442449X
• ISBN13: 9781474424493
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"