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050	0	0	_aPR478.H65 _bM43 2012
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100	1		_aMedd, Jodie, _d1971- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aLesbian scandal and the culture of modernism / _cJodie Medd, Carleton University, Ottawa.
246	3		_aLesbian Scandal & the Culture of Modernism
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2012.
300			_a1 online resource (ix, 254 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505	0		_aIntroduction: Extraordinary Allegations: Scandalous Lesbian Suggestion and the Culture of Modernism -- Part I. The Suggestion of Lesbianism and British National Culture: 1. The Suggestion of Lesbianism and the Great War: 'The Cult of the Clitoris' Scandal; 2. Lesbian Ghost Stories and Postwar Culture -- Part II. The Suggestion of Lesbianism and Modernist Communities: 3. Modernist Patronage, Literary Obscenity, and 'Doing the Lesbian Business'; 4. Bloomsbury and the Scandal of The Well of Loneliness -- Conclusion.
520			_aBefore lesbianism became a specific identity category in the West, its mere suggestion functioned as a powerful source of scandal in early twentieth-century British and Anglo-American culture. Reconsidering notions of the 'invisible' or 'apparitional' lesbian, Jodie Medd argues that lesbianism's representational instability, and the scandals it generated, rendered it an influential force within modern politics, law, art and the literature of modernist writers like James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Virginia Woolf. Medd's analysis draws on legal proceedings and parliamentary debates as well as crises within modern literary production – patronage relations, literary obscenity and cultural authority – to reveal how lesbian suggestion forced modern political, cultural and literary institutions to negotiate their own identities, ideals and limits. Medd's text will be of great interest to scholars and graduate students in gender and women's studies, modernist literary studies and English literature.
650		0	_aHomosexuality and literature _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aLesbianism in literature.
650		0	_aEnglish literature _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aLesbianism _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aLesbian culture _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aLiterature and society _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aModernism (Literature)
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xIntellectual life _y20th century.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107021631
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139128827
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