Lesbian Empire

Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties

• Author(s): Gay Wachman,
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Pages: 236
• ISBN_10: 0813529425
  ISBN_13: 9780813529424
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / LGBTQ , Literary Criticism / Women Authors , Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory , Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies , Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Lesbian Studies ,

Description:... A critical reading of sexually radical fiction by British women in the years during and after World War I. Gay Wachman examines work by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf and Radclyffe Hall, along with the less well known Clemence Dane, Rose Allatini and Evadne Price. These writers, she states, created a modernist literary tradition -one that functioned both within and against the repressive ideology of the British Empire.