British Women Writers 1914-1945: Professional Work and FriendshipRoutledge, 20.09.2017 - 194 Seiten Catherine Clay's persuasively argued and rigorously documented study examines women's friendships during the period between the two world wars. Building on extensive new archival research, the book's organizing principle is a series of literary-historical case-studies that explore the practices, meanings and effects of friendship within a network of British women writers, who were all loosely connected to the feminist weekly periodical Time and Tide. Clay considers the letters and diaries, as well as fiction, poetry, autobiographies and journalistic writings, of authors such as Vera Brittain, Winifred Holtby, Storm Jameson, Naomi Mitchison, and Stella Benson, to examine women's friendships in relation to two key contexts: the rise of the professional woman writer under the shadow of literary modernism and historic shifts in the cultural recognition of lesbianism crystallized by The Well of Loneliness trial in 1928. While Clay's study presents substantial evidence to support the crucial role close and enduring friendships played in women's professional achievements, it also boldly addresses the limitations and denials of these relationships. Producing 'biographies of friendship' untold in existing author studies, her book also challenges dominant accounts of women's friendships and advances new ways for thinking about women's friendship in contemporary debates. |
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... Convergence of Politics and Erotics ( 1932-1935 ) Female Triangulations of Desire ( 1936-1941 ) 76 84 377 37 40 26 250 15 9 vii viii x 1 5 Stella Benson and Laura Hutton : Representing the Lesbian Contents Table of Contents.
... Convergence of Politics and Erotics ( 1932-1935 ) Female Triangulations of Desire ( 1936-1941 ) 76 84 377 37 40 26 250 15 9 vii viii x 1 5 Stella Benson and Laura Hutton : Representing the Lesbian Contents Table of Contents.
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Professional Work and Friendship Catherine Clay. 5 Stella Benson and Laura Hutton : Representing the Lesbian Body Friend or Fiend ?: ' Romantic Friendship ' and the ' Apparitional Lesbian ' In Light of The Well : Feminine Fascinations ...
Professional Work and Friendship Catherine Clay. 5 Stella Benson and Laura Hutton : Representing the Lesbian Body Friend or Fiend ?: ' Romantic Friendship ' and the ' Apparitional Lesbian ' In Light of The Well : Feminine Fascinations ...
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... represented in ( un ) queer fictions , my discussion examines the creative ways in which these writers imagined and explored lesbian desire in writings which also produce points of contact with a Sapphic modernism represented in the ...
... represented in ( un ) queer fictions , my discussion examines the creative ways in which these writers imagined and explored lesbian desire in writings which also produce points of contact with a Sapphic modernism represented in the ...
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... represents an important context for approaching the individual friendship pairings that form the substantive focus of this book . First , Figure 1.1 reveals connections between women associated with Time and Tide who form what might ...
... represents an important context for approaching the individual friendship pairings that form the substantive focus of this book . First , Figure 1.1 reveals connections between women associated with Time and Tide who form what might ...
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... represented here , then , figure something more substantial than just acquaintanceship . Where connections representing more than acquaintanceship have been established , however , there remain many possibilities as to how the meanings ...
... represented here , then , figure something more substantial than just acquaintanceship . Where connections representing more than acquaintanceship have been established , however , there remain many possibilities as to how the meanings ...
Inhalt
1 | |
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a Trade in Work and Desire | 37 |
A Romance of Business | 51 |
A Passionate Beckoning | 74 |
Representing the Lesbian Body | 100 |
A Triadic Model of Friendship and Desire | 126 |
Conclusion | 158 |
Bibliographical Notes | 168 |
Bibliography | 171 |
Index | 180 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
April associated Benson's diary Berry and Bostridge biography Bloomsbury British Brittain and Holtby Brittain and Jameson case-studies Chapter China Clemence Dane context correspondence critical Crucially cultural discourses discussion Doan E.M. Delafield emotional erotic exchange fantasy Fashioning Sapphism feel female friendship feminism feminist fiction gender heterosexual History Holtby's homosexual husband Ibid intense intimacy Katherine Mansfield Lady Rhondda later Laura Hutton lesbian desire literary London Macmillan male Margaret Rhondda Marion Shaw marriage Mitchison's poem Modernism Naomi Mitchison narrative paper passionate period pleasure poetry political produced professional published quoted Rebecca West reference relationship repr reveals romantic friendship Sapphic Sapphism SB diary sexual significant SJ to VB Stella Benson Stella's diary Storm Jameson Testament of Friendship Testament of Youth Tide Tide's University Press unpublished Varengeville Vera Brittain Virago Virginia Woolf W.H. Auden Winifred Holtby woman women writers women's friendship World writing wrote