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Secrecy and Sapphic Modernism: Reading Romans À Clef Between the Wars

Secrecy and Sapphic Modernism: Reading Romans À Clef Between the Wars

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0230298370
ISBN13: 9780230298378
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 2 2011
Pages: 207
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
Novels by significant Modernist authors can be described as romans à clef, providing insight into restrictions governing the representation of female homosexuality in the early twentieth century. Nair argues that key novels of the period represented same-sex desire through the encryption of personal references directed towards coterie audiences.

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