Interrogating Lesbian Modernism: Histories, Forms, Genres

Makiko Minow coined the phrase 'lesbian modernism' in 1989. Since then, scholars of lesbian modernism have produced crucial work to critique and expand the modernist canon. At the same time, there has been ongoing critical debate about what constitutes a lesbian modernist text, who counts as a lesbian modernist author, and how lesbian modernism relates to queer and trans modernism. This edited volume presents twelve newly commissioned chapters that reassess and interrogate the meanings, uses and limitations of lesbian modernism by exploring a broad range of authors, genres and histories. Individual chapters investigate what work the concept of 'lesbian modernism' has done in the past, how its boundaries have been defined and contested, and what voices have been included and excluded. As a whole, the book demonstrates how the concept of lesbian modernism can be mobilised in new and meaningful ways to continue to inform and enrich modernist studies.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contents
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List of Figures
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Acknowledgements
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Notes on Contributors
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Introduction
pp 1-28
- By Elizabeth English, Jana Funke, Sarah Parker
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Part I - Interrogating Lesbian/Queer/Trans Modernism
pp 29-30
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1 - Loving/Hating/Loving Lesbian Modernism
pp 31-55
- By Jodie Medd
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2 - Lesbian-Trans-Feminist Modernism: Christopher St. John, Trans Masculinity and Celibate Friendship in Hungerheart: The Story of a Soul
pp 56-77
- By Jana Funke
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3 - The Ontology of the Pluri-Singular Body in Natalie Clifford Barney’s The One Who Is Legion or A.D.’s After-Life
pp 78-96
- By Katharina Boeckenhoff
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Part II - Genres and Forms
pp 97-98
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4 - Imaginative Biography: Margaret Goldsmith, Vita Sackville-West and Lesbian Historical Life Writing
pp 99-119
- By Elizabeth English
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5 - Modernism at the Margins: Mariette Lydis’s Print Portfolio Lesbiennes
pp 120-144
- By Abbey Rees-Hales
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6 - Inverting the Gaze: Radclyffe Hall and Male Sexual Identities
pp 145-162
- By Steven Macnamara
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Part III - Relationality, Networks and Kinship
pp 163-164
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7 - Writing Widows of Lesbian Modernism
pp 165-182
- By Hannah Roche
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8 - Lesbianism in/and the Family: Eva Gore-Booth and the Making of Feminist Modernism
pp 183-203
- By Kathryn Holland
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9 - Lesbian Joyce
pp 204-222
- By Katherine Mullin
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Part IV - Histories and Temporalities
pp 223-224
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10 - Elizabethan Lovemaking: College Romance and Queer Anachronism in Edna St. Vincent Millay’s The Lamp and the Bell
pp 225-247
- By Sarah Parker
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11 - The Lesbian Herstory Archives at Fifty
pp 248-264
- By Robin Hackett
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12 - Hidden in Plain Sight: The Reconstruction of Lesbian Modernist Sexual Histories
pp 265-284
- By Jo Winning
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Index
pp 285-293
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Figures
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

Notes on Contributors
pp xi-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-28

Part I - Interrogating Lesbian/Queer/Trans Modernism
pp 29-30

1 - Loving/Hating/Loving Lesbian Modernism
pp 31-55

2 - Lesbian-Trans-Feminist Modernism: Christopher St. John, Trans Masculinity and Celibate Friendship in Hungerheart: The Story of a Soul
pp 56-77

3 - The Ontology of the Pluri-Singular Body in Natalie Clifford Barney’s The One Who Is Legion or A.D.’s After-Life
pp 78-96

Part II - Genres and Forms
pp 97-98

4 - Imaginative Biography: Margaret Goldsmith, Vita Sackville-West and Lesbian Historical Life Writing
pp 99-119

5 - Modernism at the Margins: Mariette Lydis’s Print Portfolio Lesbiennes
pp 120-144

6 - Inverting the Gaze: Radclyffe Hall and Male Sexual Identities
pp 145-162

Part III - Relationality, Networks and Kinship
pp 163-164

7 - Writing Widows of Lesbian Modernism
pp 165-182

8 - Lesbianism in/and the Family: Eva Gore-Booth and the Making of Feminist Modernism
pp 183-203

9 - Lesbian Joyce
pp 204-222

Part IV - Histories and Temporalities
pp 223-224

10 - Elizabethan Lovemaking: College Romance and Queer Anachronism in Edna St. Vincent Millay’s The Lamp and the Bell
pp 225-247

11 - The Lesbian Herstory Archives at Fifty
pp 248-264

12 - Hidden in Plain Sight: The Reconstruction of Lesbian Modernist Sexual Histories
pp 265-284

Index
pp 285-293

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