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OverviewThe Well of Loneliness is probably the most famous lesbian novel ever written, and certainly the most widely read. It contains no explicit sex scenes, yet in 1928, the year in which the novel was published, it was deemed obscene in a British court of law for its defense of sexual inversion and was forbidden for sale or import into England. Its author, Radclyffe Hall, was already well-known as a writer and West End celebrity, but the fame and notoriety of that one book has all but eclipsed a literary output of some half-dozen other novels and several volumes of poetry. In Radclyffe Hall: A Life in the Writing Richard Dellamora offers the first full look at the entire range of Hall's published and unpublished works of fiction, poetry, and autobiography and reads through them to demonstrate how she continually played with the details of her own life to help fashion her own identity as well as to bring into existence a public lesbian culture. Along the way, Dellamora revises many of the truisms about Hall that had their origins in the memoirs of her long-term partner, Una Troubridge, and that have found an afterlife in the writings of Hall's biographers. In detailing Hall's explorations of the self, Dellamora is the first seriously to consider their contexts in Freudian psychoanalysis as understood in England in the 1920s. As important, he uncovers Hall's involvement with other modes of speculative psychology, including Spiritualism, Theosophy, and an eclectic brand of Christian and Buddhist mysticism. Dellamora's Hall is a woman of complex accommodations, able to reconcile her marriage to Troubridge with her passionate affairs with other women, and her experimental approach to gender and sexuality with her conservative politics and Catholicism. She is, above all, a thinker continually inventive about the connections between selfhood and desire, a figure who has much to contribute to our own efforts to understand transgendered and transsexual existence today. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richard DellamoraPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.689kg ISBN: 9780812243468ISBN 10: 0812243463 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 28 June 2011 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Writing Radclyffe Hall Writing 1 Reading the Poetry 2 Psychic Incorporation: War, Mourning, and the Technology of Mediumship 3 Symbiosis of Publicity and Privacy: The Slander Trial of 1920 4 The Unlit Lamp: A Feminist Experiment 5 Paris and the Culture of Auto/biography in The Forge 6 Una Troubridge and Gender Performativity in A Saturday Life 7 Catholicism, Adam's Breed, and the Sacred Well 8 The Well of Loneliness as an Activist Text 9 From Sexual Inversion to Cross Gender in ''Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself'' 10 After Economic Man: ''The Rest Cure-1932' 11 Oneself as The Other: Hall, Evguenia Souline, and the Final Writing Notes Bibliography Index AcknowledgmentsReviewsDellamora...commendably investigates Hall through more than a single lens. Although relationships between women were of upmost importance to Hall as an individual and artist, Dellamora focuses on the multifaceted person she was, including her interests in human psychology, Roman Catholicism, and paranormal phenomena...Dellamora moves away from a traditional biographical structure by relating Hall's life principally through her writing. -Library Journal This is an important work on Hall. While providing a biographical context, Dellamora shifts the discussion away from her life and vexed 'marriage' with Una Troubridge, and instead focuses on the religious, spiritual, and sexual worlds that Hall inhabited as both a follower and a leader. -Martha Vicinus, University of Michigan This is an important work on Hall. While providing a biographical context, Dellamora shifts the discussion away from her life and vexed 'marriage' with Una Troubridge, and instead focuses on the religious, spiritual, and sexual worlds that Hall inhabited as both a follower and a leader. -Martha Vicinus, University of Michigan Author InformationRichard Dellamora is Visiting Professor in the department of English at UCLA and Professor Emeritus of English and Cultural Studies at Trent University in Canada. He is the author of Friendship's Bonds: Democracy and the Novel in Victorian England and editor of Postmodern Apocalypse: Theory and Cultural Practice at the End, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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