Palatable poison : critical perspectives on The well of loneliness /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Doan, Laura L., 1951-, Prosser, Jay
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2001]
Series:Gender and culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • Commentary (1928) / Havelock Ellis
  • "A book that must be suppressed" (1928) / James Douglas
  • Judgment (1928) / Chartres Biron
  • A selection of early reviews
  • "Radclyffe Hall" (1975) / Jane Rule
  • "The mythic mannish lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the new woman" (1989) / Esther Newston
  • "Perverse desire": the lure of the mannish lesbian" (1991) / Teresa de Lauretis
  • "Some primitive thing conceived in a turbulent age of transition": the transsexual emerging from The well / Jay Prosser
  • "A writer of misfits": "John" Radclyffe Hall and the discourse of inversion / Judith Halberstam
  • "The outcast of one age is the hero of another": Radclyffe Hall, Edward Carpenter and the intermediate sex / Laura Doan
  • "All my life I've been waiting for something": theorizing femme narrative in The well of loneliness / Clare Hemmings
  • The well of shame / Sally R. Munt
  • The well of loneliness as war novel / Susan Kingsley Kent
  • War wounds: the nation, shell shock, and psychoanalysis in the The well of loneliness / Jodie Medd
  • Of trees and polities, wars and wounds / Trevor Hope
  • "I want to cross over into camp ground": race and inversion in The well of loneliness / Jean Walton
  • "Something primitive and age-old as nature herself": lesbian sexuality and the permission of the exotic / Sarah E. Chinn
  • Once more unto the breach: The well of loneliness and the spaces of inversion / Victoria Rosner
  • Great cities: Radclyffe Hall at the Chicago School / Julie Abraham
  • Well meaning: pragmatism, lesbianism, and the U.S. obscenity trial / Kim Emery
  • Writing by the light of the well: Radclyffe hall and the lesbian modernists / Joanne Winning.