Secrecy and Sapphic Modernism: Writing Romans Clef Between the Wars

By Sashi Nair

Novels by significant Modernist authors can be described as romans ? 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349334545
• ISBN13: 9781349334544
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"