Lesbian Scandal and the Culture of Modernism

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The work Lesbian Scandal and the Culture of Modernism represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Lesbian Scandal and the Culture of Modernism

Statement of responsibility

Jodie Medd

Creator

• Medd, Jodie, 1971-
• Medd, Jodie, 1971-

Subject

• Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Lesbian culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Lesbianism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Lesbianism in literature
• Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Modernism (Literature)
• English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

"Before lesbianism became a specific identity category in the West, its mere suggestion functioned as a powerful source of scandal in early twentieth-century British and Anglo-American culture. Reconsidering notions of the 'invisible' or 'apparitional' lesbian, Jodie Medd argues that lesbianism's representational instability, and the scandals it generated, rendered it an influential force within modern politics, law, art and the literature of modernist writers like James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Virginia Woolf. Medd's analysis draws on legal proceedings and parliamentary debates as well as crises within modern literary production - patronage relations, literary obscenity and cultural authority - to reveal how lesbian suggestion forced modern political, cultural and literary institutions to negotiate their own identities, ideals and limits. Medd's text will be of great interest to scholars and graduate students in gender and women's studies, modernist literary studies and English literature"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

LC call number

PR478.H65

LC item number

M43 2012eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries