TY  - BOOK
AU  - English,Elizabeth
TI  - Lesbian modernism: censorship, sexuality and genre fiction
T2  - Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
SN  - 9781474424493
U1  - 823.009206643 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - English fiction
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Lesbianism in literature
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
N2  - Explores the aesthetic dilemma prompted by the censorship of Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness in 1928. Faced with legal and financial reprisals, women writers were forced to question how they might represent lesbian identity and desire. Modernist experimentation has often been seen as a response to this problem, but English breaks new ground by arguing that popular genre fictions offered a creative strategy against the threat of detection and punishment. Her study examines a range of responses to this dilemma by offering illuminating close readings of fantasy, crime, and historical fictions written by both mainstream and modernist authors.--Provided by publisher
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