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  1. Secrecy and sapphic modernism
    Writing Romans a clef between the wars
    Author: Nair, Sashi
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    Novels by significant Modernist authors can be described as romans a 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... more

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    Novels by significant Modernist authors can be described as romans a 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 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

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780230298378; 1283381230; 9780230356184; 9780230357631; 9781283381239
    RVK Categories: HM 1101 ; HU 1691
    Subjects: Homosexuality in literature; Lesbians in literature; Romans à clef; Fiction; Fiction; Electronic books
    Scope: VIII, 207 S.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    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