Brigid Brophy : : Avant-Garde Writer, Critic, Activist / / Richard Canning, Gerri Kimber.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Canning, Richard,; Kimber, Gerri,
• MitwirkendeR: Blatton, Phoebe,; Bronski, Michael,; Brophy, Brigid,; Canning, Richard,; Dixon, John,; Francione, Gary L.,; Gibbs, Jonathan,; Hill, Rodney,; Leeson, Miles,; Levey, Kate,; Longmate, Jill,; Parker, Peter,; Pero, Allan,; Stallwood, Kim,; Sweeney, Carole,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 12 B/W illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1 Embodying the Fragments: A Reflection on the Reluctant Auto-Biography of Brigid Brophy --; 2 Brigid Brophy’s Paradoxical World of Childhood --; 3 Introduction to ‘The Librarian and the Novel’ --; 4 The Librarian and the Novel: A Writer’s View --; 5 Penetrating (the) Prancing Novelist --; 6 ‘Shavian that she was’ --; 7 ‘Il faut que je vive’: Brigid Brophy and Animal Rights --; 8 Brigid Brophy’s Phenomenology of Sex in Flesh and The Snow Ball --; 9 Letter to Brigid --; 10 Encoding Love: Hidden Correspondence in the Fiction of Brigid Brophy and Iris Murdoch --; 11 ‘Heads and Boxes’: A Prop Art Exhibition Collaboration by Brigid Brophy and Maureen Duffy --; 12 Prancing Novelist and Black and White: Experiments in Biography --; 13 ‘Mo nster Cupid’: Brophy, Camp and The Snow Ball --; 14 ‘A Felicitous Day for Fish’ --; 15 The Dissenting Feminist --; 16 A Certain Detachment? --; Notes on Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474462686; 9783110780413
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474462686
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Richard Canning, Gerri Kimber.

Celebrates Brigid Brophy’s life’s work, its diversity, originality and achievementThe first critical book on Brigid Brophy covering all her interests from literature, music and art to animal rights and political activismIncludes previously unpublished written and illustrated material by BrophyContributions from leading literary scholars, biographers, creative writers and activistsThis book explores all aspects of Brophy’s literary career, alongside contributions on animal rights, vegetarianism, anti-vivisectionism, humanism, feminism and sexual politics, not only celebrating Brophy’s eclectic achievements but fully reflecting them. Contributors include literary critics, animal rights activists, Brophy’s daughter, Kate Levey, and Brophy herself.