Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting in the TwentiesA critical reading of sexually radical fiction by British women in the years during and after World War I. Gay Wachman examines work by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf and Radclyffe Hall, along with the less well known Clemence Dane, Rose Allatini and Evadne Price. These writers, she states, created a modernist literary tradition -one that functioned both within and against the repressive ideology of the British Empire. |
Contents
LESBIAN HISTORIES | 8 |
IMPERIAL IDEOLOGY AND LESBIAN WRITING | 37 |
CROSSWRITING THE PRIMITIVE | 71 |
CROSSWRITING THE CLOSET | 103 |
WRITING AND REWRITING STEPHEN GORDON | 152 |
NOTES | 183 |
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