Sapphic Modernities
Sapphic Modernities marks the first attempt to examine the representation of the lesbian in modernity from the multiple perspectives of literary, visual, and cultural studies, seeking collectively to answer: What range of "sapphisms" circulated during the interwar period, and what forms of cultural production enabled the lesbian's emergence and self-definition? This exciting collection's aim is to show how the sapphic figure, in her multiple and contradictory guises, refigures the relation...
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Sapphic Modernities marks the first attempt to examine the representation of the lesbian in modernity from the multiple perspectives of literary, visual, and cultural studies
Ch. 1The sapphist in the city : lesbian modernist Paris and sapphic modernity17Ch. 2Romaine Brooks and the future of sapphic modernity35Ch. 3"The woman who does" : a Melbourne motor garage proprietor55Ch. 4Sapphic smokers and English modernities75Ch. 5"Woman's place is the home" : conservative sapphic modernity91Ch. 6Art deco hybridity, interior design, and sexuality between the wars : two double acts : Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher/Eyre de Lanux and Evelyn Wyld109Ch. 7Impossible objects : waiting for the revolution in Summer will show133Ch. 8Virginia Woolf's Greek lessons149Ch. 9"A sudden orgy of decadence" : writing about sex between women in the interwar popular press165Ch. 10Edith Ellis, sapphic idealism, and The lover's calendar (1912)183Ch. 11Seances and slander : Radclyffe Hall in 1920201Ch. 12Telling it straight : the rhetorics of conversion in Elizabeth Bowen's The hotel and Freud's Psychogenesis217Ch. 13Mary Butts's "fanatical pederastie ": queer urban life in 1920s London and Paris233
