Decoding Anne Lister : from the archives to 'Gentleman Jack' /
"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...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- 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