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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... period of its duration . The importance of this task lies in the fact that a critical failure to engage with this correspondence can only compound , rather than dismantle , the constraints , fears and denials which made this friendship ...
... period of its duration . The importance of this task lies in the fact that a critical failure to engage with this correspondence can only compound , rather than dismantle , the constraints , fears and denials which made this friendship ...
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... period . However , in the months leading up to the First World War she was actively involved in the Suffrage movement , and later in Hong Kong she joined a League of Nations committee for enquiring into the International Traffic in ...
... period . However , in the months leading up to the First World War she was actively involved in the Suffrage movement , and later in Hong Kong she joined a League of Nations committee for enquiring into the International Traffic in ...
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... period which witnessed critical changes in the lives of British women.2 In collaboration with other women known to her through the suffrage movement , and joined later by women from a younger generation of post - war feminists , Lady ...
... period which witnessed critical changes in the lives of British women.2 In collaboration with other women known to her through the suffrage movement , and joined later by women from a younger generation of post - war feminists , Lady ...
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... period can certainly be woven , it 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 ...
... period can certainly be woven , it 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 ...
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... period , ' feminists were suspect lesbians axiomatically ' and while Time and Tide condemned the prosecution and banning of Hall's novel , its attitude towards the book's treatment of sexuality remained cautious.1 11 The presence of ...
... period , ' feminists were suspect lesbians axiomatically ' and while Time and Tide condemned the prosecution and banning of Hall's novel , its attitude towards the book's treatment of sexuality remained cautious.1 11 The presence of ...
Inhalt
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9 | |
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