LEADER 04748nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910788580903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89687-7 010 $a0-8122-0465-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812204650 035 $a(CKB)3240000000064708 035 $a(OCoLC)794700610 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10641554 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606628 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11373163 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606628 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10597936 035 $a(PQKB)10608165 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8252 035 $a(DE-B1597)449347 035 $a(OCoLC)1013940311 035 $a(OCoLC)979684717 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812204650 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441719 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10641554 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420937 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441719 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000064708 100 $a20110318d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRadclyffe Hall$b[electronic resource] $ea life in the writing /$fRichard Dellamora 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (xxii, 319 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aHaney Foundation Series 225 0$aHaney Foundation series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4346-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tIntroduction. Writing Radclyffe Hall Writing --$tReading the Poetry --$tPsychic Incorporation: War, Mourning, and the Technology of Mediumship --$tSymbiosis of Publicity and Privacy: The Slander Trial of 1920 --$tThe Unlit Lamp: A Feminist Experiment --$tParis and the Culture of Auto/biography in The Forge --$tUna Troubridge and Gender Performativity in A Saturday Life --$tCatholicism, Adam's Breed, and the Sacred Well --$tThe Well of Loneliness as an Activist Text --$tFrom Sexual Inversion to Cross Gender in ''Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself'' --$tAfter Economic Man: ''The Rest Cure-1932'' --$tOneself as The Other: Hall, Evguenia Souline, and the Final Writing. 330 $aThe 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 1920's. 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. 606 $aLesbianism in literature 606 $aSpiritualism in literature 610 $aAutobiography. 610 $aBiography. 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 615 0$aLesbianism in literature. 615 0$aSpiritualism in literature. 676 $a823.912 700 $aDellamora$b Richard$01467613 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788580903321 996 $aRadclyffe Hall$93678342 997 $aUNINA