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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Other Authors: Roulston, Chris (Editor), Gonda, Caroline (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 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