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Secrecy and sapphic modernismwriting Romans �a clef between the wars /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Secrecy and sapphic modernismSashi Nair.
Reminder of title:	writing Romans �a clef between the wars /
Author:	Nair, Sashi,
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2012.
Description:	1 online resource.
Notes:	Includes index.
Subject:	American fictionWomen authors
Online resource:	https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9780230356184
ISBN:	9780230356184 (electronic bk.)

Secrecy and sapphic modernismwriting Romans �a clef between the wars /
Nair, Sashi,1979-

Secrecy and sapphic modernismwriting Romans �a clef between the wars /[electronic resource] :Sashi Nair. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2012. - 1 online resource.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Screening Desire in the Sapphic Modernist Roman� Clef� -- 'Moral Poison': Radclyffe Hall and The Well of Loneliness� -- 'On her lips you kiss your own': Theorizing Desire in Djuna Barnes' Nightwood -- 'Truth & Fantasy': Virginia Woolf's Orlando as Sapphic Roman� Clef -- 'Gertrude, the world is a theatre for you': Staging the Self in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas� -- Conclusion: 'Two alert and vivid bodies', Desire and Salvation in H.D.'s HER -- References -- Index.

Secrecy and Sapphic Modernism takes an exciting new approach to women's writing of the early twentieth century. It argues that novels by authors including Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein can be productively described as romans� clef (or 'novels with a key'), which encrypt same-sex desire in order to avoid censorship and represent the seemingly unrepresentable. Nair suggests that authors of Sapphic modernism used the roman� clef genre to structure a complex address b6 s one that encrypted personal references and directed them toward a private or coterie audience while simultaneously attracting a more mainstream readership.This bookacknowledges that a sense of loss and shame characterizes much 'queer' writing of the period, but it argues that in the case of Sapphic romans� clef, encrypted personal expressions of longing and desire took on an elegiac tone, and offered a celebration of same-sex desire via the insistence that it be taken seriously.

ISBN: 9780230356184 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786613381231

Source: 504540Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

220729
American fiction
--Women authorsIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PS153.L46 / N35 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.54099287

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