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 / Robin Hackett.

Author/creator	Hackett, Robin, 1963-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004.
Description	x, 189 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	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. Homosexuality and literature--English-speaking countries. Women and literature--English-speaking countries.

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.
Local note	Little-346987--305131052616X
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-181) and index.
LCCN	2003005944
ISBN	0813533465 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	0813533473 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PR888.L46 H33 2004	✔ Available	Place Hold