Secrecy and Sapphic Modernism [electronic resource] : Reading Romans à Clef Between the Wars /
Nair, S.author.
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 encryption of personal references directed towards coterie audiences.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Screening desire in the Sapphic modernist roman à clef; 1 'Moral poison': Radclyffe Hall and The Well of Loneliness; 2 'On her lips you kiss your own': Theorizing desire in Djuna Barnes' Nightwood; 3 'Truth & fantasy': Virginia Woolf's Orlando as Sapphic roman à clef; 4 'Gertrude, the world is a theatre for you': Staging the self in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas; 5 Conclusion: 'Two alert and vivid bodies': Desire and salvation in H.D.'s HER; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 encryption of personal references directed towards coterie audiences.
Sociology.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Fiction.
Gender Studies.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Literature, general.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Fiction.