Sapphic primitivism
Subtitle: productions of race, class, and sexuality in key works of modern fiction
By: Robin Hackett.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920 -- Characters -- Women.; Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893-; Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Characters -- Women.; Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Lesbians in literature.; English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.; Homosexuality and literature -- English-speaking countries.; Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.; Social classes in literature.; Primitivism in literature.; Race in literature.; Sex in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-181) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sapphic primitivism, an introduction; title: The homosexual primitivism of modernism; title: Olive Schreiner and the late Victorian new woman; title: Empire, social rot, and sexual fantasy in the waves; title: Class, race and lesbian erotics in Summer will show; title: Jezebel and Sapphira : Willa Cather's monstrous sapphists.