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Author Johnston, Georgia.

Title The formation of 20th century queer autobiography : reading Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, Hilda Doolittle, and Gertrude Stein / Georgia Johnston.

Publication Info. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  820.9352 J72F    Check Shelf
Description x, 203 pages ; 23 cm
Note This work explores autobiography as a genre that can critique assumptions about the formation of sexual consciousness and sexual identity.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-189) and index.
Contents Queering the Subject of Modernist Lesbian Autobiography - Wholes in the Dykes: Havelock Ellis and Sigmund Freud Figuring the Lesbian Counterfeit Perversions in Vita Sackville-West's Portrait - Virginia Woolf's Subjectivities and (Auto)Biographies - Hilda Doolittle's Lesbian Visions - Lesbian Textualities in Stein's Lifting Belly
Subject Lesbian authors -- Great Britain -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Lesbian authors -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Autobiography -- Women authors.
Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Lesbianism in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Sex (Psychology) in literature.
Added Title Formation of twentieth century queer autobiography
ISBN 140397618X alkaline paper
9781403976185 alkaline paper
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