The Outside Thing : : Modernist Lesbian Romance / / Hannah Roche.

In a lecture delivered before the University of Oxford’s Anglo-French Society in 1936, Gertrude Stein described romance as “the outside thing, that . . . is always a thing to be felt inside.” Hannah Roche takes Stein’s definition as a principle for the reinterpretation of three major modernist lesbi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Gender and Culture Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 12 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION: LOCATING THE LESBIAN WRITER, OR “WE INSIDE US DO NOT CHANGE”
  • I. GERTRUDE STEIN
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. “THE OUTSIDE THING” AND THINGS AS THEY ARE: GERTRUDE STEIN’S LESBIAN ROMANCE
  • 2. “NO THERE THERE”: INSIDE THE MARRIAGE PLOT
  • II. RADCLYFFE HALL
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 3. STRANGE SOIL AND NOVEL GROUND: RADCLYFFE HALL’S ROMANCE PLOTS
  • 4. ROMANTIC EMBLEMS AND “THE REAL THING”: WRITING THE SOULINE AFFAIR
  • III. DJUNA BARNES
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 5. FROM LESBIAN READING TO BISEXUAL WRITING: SWITCHING TRACKS WITH DJUNA BARNES
  • 6. THE TRAPEZE EFFECT: DJUNA BARNES’S BISEXUAL ROMANCE
  • CODA: A HAPPY ENDING?
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • GENDER AND CULTURE