Secrecy and Sapphic Modernism: Reading Romans À Clef Between the Wars

By Sashi Nair

Novels by significant Modernist authors can be described as romans ? 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230298370
• ISBN13: 9780230298378
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"