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Recent papers in Radclyffe Hall
This book examines how sexological ideas about desire and the body made their way from German science into British literary culture at the turn of the last century. It shows that fiction not only influenced the vocabulary of European... more
This essay placed second in the Corpus Christi Christopher Marlowe Essay Competition. It examines the representation of gender in Virginia Woolf's 'Orlando' and Radclyffe Hall's 'The Well of Loneliness' through clothing, 'gender as... more
Dorothy Richardson, Jean Rhys and Radclyffe Hall have long been considered minor figures within the larger context of Modernism. Also, very often their colourful biographies have received more attention than their literary works. This... more
This piece, which is Chapter 4 of my monograph, English Literary Sexology 1860-1930, argues that The Well of Loneliness provides a distinct contribution to the emergence of modern ideas about female same-sex sexuality. Examining both the... more
I denna essä, publicerad med anledning av en svensk nyutgåva av Radclyffe Halls klassiska roman Ensamhetens brunn, diskuteras spänningen mellan norm och subversivitet.
'Same Old' offers a rethinking of positions that have defined queer theory since its inception in the early 1990s. Steeped in philosophical and political commitments to 'difference', queer theoretical frameworks have tended to assume that... more
Author of the paper examines the figure of lesbian war-nurse in Radclyffe Hall's prose in relation to the emancipatory potential of the Great War. By the end of 1917 nearly 200 000 women joined the British military medical services,... more
The thesis argues that modern lesbian narratives appeared from the beginning of the twentieth century as a reverse discourse in response to late nineteenth-century sexology that defined the lesbian as unnatural and immoral. The MA thesis... more
Here is the power point presentation of a lecture given at the SAES annual congress last June in Toulon. The theme of the congress dealt with commitment and I delivered my speech at the SEAC which is the French Society of Contemporary... more
The novel is considered a seminal text in the history of LGBT literature. First published in 1928 by Covici Friede, it remains the most important novel of the period. There have been better books more accurately delineated and written... more
https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1419/94273 The essay provides new insights into Carlo Emilio Gadda’s various experiments with short story writing through an examination of his manuscripts held at the Biblioteca Trivulziana in Milan. A... more