Sapphic primitivism : productions of race, class, and sexuality in key works of modern fiction /

Sapphic primitivism : productions of race, class, and sexuality in key works of modern fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hackett, Robin, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Schreiner, Olive, > 1855-1920 > Characters > Women.
Warner, Sylvia Townsend, > 1893-1978. > Summer will show.
Cather, Willa, > 1873-1947 > Characters > Women.
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941. > Waves.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Lesbians in literature.
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain.
Homosexuality and literature.
Social classes in literature.
Primitivism in literature.
Race in literature.
Sex in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Sapphic primitivism, an introduction
  • The homosexual primitivism of modernism
  • Olive Schreiner and the late Victorian new woman
  • Empire, social rot, and sexual fantasy in The waves
  • Class, race and lesbian erotics in Summer will show
  • Jezebel and Sapphira : Willa Cather's monstrous sapphists.