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03435aam a2200445 i 4500 001 A517EF6A6B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 120330s2012 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2012012611 020 $a 1107021634 020 $a 9781107021631 035 $a (OCoLC)786002520 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d UKMGB $d ERASA $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BWX $d CUT $d IUL $d N15 $d CDX $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR478 H65 M43 2012 100 1 $a Medd, Jodie, $d 1971- 245 10 $a Lesbian scandal and the culture of modernism / $c Jodie Medd, Carleton University, Ottawa. 260 $a Cambridge ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2012. 300 $a ix, 254 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Before 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: 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. 650 0 $a Homosexuality and literature $z Great Britain $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Lesbianism in literature. 650 0 $a English literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Lesbianism $z Great Britain $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Lesbian culture $z Great Britain $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z Great Britain $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Intellectual life $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Modernism (Literature) 856 42 $3 Contributor biographical information $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012012611-b.html 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012012611-d.html 856 41 $3 Table of contents only $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012012611-t.html 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180118060133.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171107021258.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A517EF6A6B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search