Secrecy and Sapphic Modernism

1. Introduction: Screening desire in the Sapphic modernist roman à clef
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2. ‘Moral poison’: Radclyffe Hall and The Well of Loneliness
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3. ‘On her lips you kiss your own’: Theorizing desire in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood
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4. ‘Truth & fantasy’: Virginia Woolf’s Orlando as Sapphic roman à clef
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5. ‘Gertrude, the world is a theatre for you’: Staging the self in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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6. Conclusion: ‘Two alert and vivid bodies’: Desire and salvation in H.D.’s HER
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Keywords: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Literature, general, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction