Decoding Anne Lister from the archives to 'Gentleman Jack' Roulston, Chris editor. Gonda, Caroline editor. Cambridge University Press text bibliography biography Electronic books. Biographies History enk 2023 2023 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xvii, 282 pages) : illustrations "The first edited collection of essays on the nineteenth-century diarist Anne Lister, this interdisciplinary collection highlights how her five-million-word diaries shifted paradigms and created awareness around same-sex practices. It engages with Lister's influence beyond academia through to her present-day screen adaptation"-- Caroline Gonda in Conversation with Helena Whitbread -- A Regular Oddity: Natural History and Anne Lister's Queer Theory of Tradition / Laurie Shannon -- Anne Lister's search for the anatomy of sex / Anna Clark -- 'My Use of the Word Love': Lister, Language and the Dictionary / Stephen Turton -- Self-Conscious Closeting and Paradoxical Writing in Anne Lister's Diaries / Caroline Baylis-Green -- Anne Lister's politics / Susan S. Lanser -- 'Building Castles in the Air': Anne Lister and Associational Life / Cassandra Ulph -- Anne Lister's home / Angela Clare -- 'The Art of Travelling Requires an Apprenticeship': Anne Lister's Diaries and Travel / Kitty McHugh -- Travelling in the Caucasus, Travelling in Time: Decoding Biography as Genre / Angela Steidele -- Labels, Plaques and Identity Categories: Finding the Words for Anne Lister / Caroline Gonda -- From Anne Lister to Gentleman Jack: queer temporality, fandom, and the gains and losses of adaptation / Chris Roulston -- Emma Donoghue in conversation with Sally Wainwright Part II 'My spirit's oil': Lister Reading, Lister Writing -- Chapter 4 'My Use of the Word Love': Lister, Language and the Dictionary -- Lister's Lookups -- Novel Denominations -- A Legacy in Words -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Self-Conscious Closeting and Paradoxical Writing in Anne Lister's Diaries -- Spatial Tropes -- Self-Conscious and Unconscious Closets -- Domestic and Physical Closets -- Thresholds and Risk-Taking -- Diary Code as Split Paratext? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part III 'Born at Halifax': Lister's Politics, Local and Global -- Chapter 6 Anne Lister's Politics -- Notes Chapter 7 'Building Castles in the Air': Anne Lister and Associational Life -- Under Existing Rules: Women in the Lit. and Phil. -- The Late 'Lit. and Phil.' Movement and Shifting Modes of Participation -- 'This my Native Town': Anne Lister's Investment in Halifax -- Castles in the Air: Imagining Female Participation -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Anne Lister's Home -- Introduction -- Shibden Hall's History -- Anne Lister's Inheritance -- Anne Lister's Alterations to Shibden Hall -- Anne Lister's Landscape -- Anne Lister's Collections -- Interpreting Anne Lister at Shibden -- Conclusion -- Notes Part IV 'Curious scenes': Lister's Travels -- Chapter 9 'The Art of Travelling Requires an Apprenticeship': Anne Lister's Diaries and Travel -- Travel Writing Studies -- Anne Lister's Travels and her Diaries -- Scholarly and Popular Interest in Anne Lister's Travels -- Anne Lister's Diaries as Evidence for Travel Planning -- Public and Private Narratives in Anne Lister's Home Tours -- Class and Gender in Anne Lister's Home Tours -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Travelling in the Caucasus, Travelling in Time: Decoding Biography as Genre -- Books and Reality -- Kutaisi -- The Colchic Forest Towards Racha -- Patriarchy -- Utsera -- Glacier -- Violence -- Everything Flows -- Lost -- Mingrelia -- Notes -- Part V 'I beg to be remembered': Lister, Public History and Popular Culture -- Chapter 11 Labels, Plaques and Identity Categories: Finding the Words for Anne Lister -- Prologue: Shibden Hall -- A Tale of Two Plaques -- The Dead Sea Scrolls of Lesbian History -- 'I look within myself & doubt': Lister's Self-Construction -- Plaques and Projections -- Conclusion: No Time like the Present -- Notes edited by Chris Roulston, University of Western Ontario and Caroline Gonda, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. Includes bibliographical references and index. e-uk-en Lister, Anne 1791-1840 Lister, Anne 1791-1840 Lesbians England Biography Lesbians England History 19th century Sex role England History 19th century Lesbiennes Angleterre Biographies Lesbiennes Angleterre Histoire 19e siècle Rôle selon le sexe Angleterre Histoire 19e siècle Lesbians Sex role England 1800-1899 fast HQ75.4.L57 D43 2023 306.76/63092 B Decoding Anne Lister Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 (DLC) 2022062063 9781009280723 1009280724 9781009280778 1009280775 1009280767 9781009280761 9781009280730 9781009280747 2022062064 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009280723 DLC 230208 20240717153837.4 in00004796313 eng