The Outside Thing: Modernist Lesbian Romance

by Hannah Roche

Book Overview

In a lecture delivered before the University of Oxford's Anglo-French Society in 1936, Gertrude Stein described romance as "the outside thing, that . . . is always a thing to be felt inside." Hannah Roche takes Stein's definition as a principle for the reinterpretation of three major modernist lesbian writers, showing how literary and affective romance played a crucial yet overlooked role in the works of Stein, Radclyffe Hall, and Djuna Barnes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231188161
• ISBN13: 9780231188166
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"