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. SASHI NAIR is based at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include queer and feminist literary studies, modernist women's writing, and intersections between queer and postcolonial writing in male and female-authored texts of the early twentieth century. She has published articles on Sapphic modernism and Chaucer's ''Troilus and' 'Criseyde''. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Introduction: Screening Desire in the Sapphic Modernist 'Roman à 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 à 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
- ISBN: 978-0-230-29837-8
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 216
- Fecha Publicación: 23/11/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés