Description:
Popular fiction is seen as a staple of late-twentieth-century and contemporary lesbian cultural production, however largely perceived as a recent development. Elizabeth English breaks new ground by providing a pre-history to lesbian cultural identity.
Brief description: Elizabeth English is a Senior Lecturer in English at Cardiff Metropolitan University
Review Quotes: Lesbian Modernism pits highbrow modernist experimentation against popular genre fiction to offer fresh perspectives on the literary representation of Sapphic love. Conceptually ambitious and deeply researched, this study exposes the ways some women writers evaded the censor by exploiting the fissures of the literary marketplace. -- "Laura Doan, author of Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality, and Women's Experience of Modern War"