Roche, H (2019) The Outside Thing: Modernist Lesbian Romance. Gender and Culture Series . Columbia University Press , (272pp). ISBN 9780231188166
Abstract
This book makes a bold case for the significance of romance – both literary genre and the articulation of amatory attachments and desire – in the works and lives of three modern lesbian writers: Gertrude Stein, Radclyffe Hall, and Djuna Barnes. Drawing upon extensive new archival research, The Outside Thing presents romance as a heterosexual space or plot upon which lesbian writers, before and after Radclyffe Hall, wilfully set up camp. It argues, for the first time, that these writers adapted – rather than adopted – the romance genre not in order to evade censorship but as a means of staking a queer claim on a heterosexual institution. The writers here did not submit or surrender to the heterosexual romance plot; instead, they turned it to their advantage. Written at a time when the lesbian is no longer apparitional, invisible, or mythically mannish, The Outside Thing takes its readers inside important early twentieth-century lesbian publications and pairings.
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Item Type: | Book |
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Keywords: | lesbian; modernism; romance; genre |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 24 Oct 2017 10:47 |
Last Modified: | 28 Feb 2024 16:17 |
Published Version: | https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-outside-thing/97... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
Series Name: | Gender and Culture Series |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:122952 |