This book examines the creative intimacy between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, interpreting both their relationship and their work in the light of their experience as married lesbians. The contradictions and conflicts of their situation are worked out through the construction of different narratives of femininity, in letters, novels, ...
The essays in this volume on women's writing of the First World War are written from an explicitly theoretical and academic feminist perspective. The contributors - including a number of leading female academics - challenge current thinking about women's responses to the First World War and explore the differences between women writers of the ...
This biography of novelist May Sinclair (1863-1946), inventor of the term "stream of consciousness," sees her as a transitional figure between Victorianism and modernism, and attempts to brighten up her faded reputation.
The relationship between law and psychology has traditionally been examined in terms of the explicit connections between them, such as forensic psychology, the applications of psychology to law enforcement and policing, and children and the law. In this text, Fiona Raitt and Suzanne Zeedyk draw attention to a further implicit relationship between ...
In the editor's words, this volume is about the relationship of politics with pleasure. A deliberately feminist anthology that addresses three centuries of English language lesbian culture and literature: 17th century verse; 19th century fiction; and 20th century prose dramas, and al so looks at lesbian themes in mainstream theatre and cinema. The ...
Volcanoes and Pearl Divers is a vibrant anthology of UK based essays about English Language lesbian writers from the 17th century to the present including analysis of lesbian film and theatre. Literary criticism here includes hard to find authors such as Delarivier Manley, Mary Taylor and Michael Field (aka Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper) and ...
The stories in this collection range from Mansfield's earliest piece, "The Tiredness of Rosabel", a poignant unfolding of frustrated longings, to other tales of isolation and oppression such as the powerfully bleak "The Woman at the Store" and the dialogues "Late at Night" and "The Black Cap".
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