Palatable poison : critical perspectives on The well of loneliness
"Palatable Poison gathers together classic essays on Radclyffe Hall's book--beginning with Havelock Ellis and early reviews--as well as new pieces by such contemporary critics as Esther Newton, Judith Halberstam, Teresa de Lauretis, and Terry Castle. Providing an understanding of how views of the book have changed over time and covering such topics as fetishism, inversion, and melancholy, the collection presents new and provocative ideas about the immense cultural impact of The Well of Loneliness and its unique place in the literature of sexual nonconformity"--Publisher
xii, 418 pages ; 24 cm.
9780231118743, 9780231118750, 0231118740, 0231118759
46882628
Commentary (1928) / Havelock Ellis
"A book that must be suppressed" (1928) / James Douglas
Judgment (1928) / Chartres Biron
A selection of early reviews
"Radclyffe Hall" (1975) / Jane Rule
"The mythic mannish lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the new woman" (1989) / Esther Newston
"Perverse desire": the lure of the mannish lesbian" (1991) / Teresa de Lauretis
"Some primitive thing conceived in a turbulent age of transition": the transsexual emerging from The well / Jay Prosser
"A writer of misfits": "John" Radclyffe Hall and the discourse of inversion / Judith Halberstam
"The outcast of one age is the hero of another": Radclyffe Hall, Edward Carpenter and the intermediate sex / Laura Doan
"All my life I've been waiting for something": theorizing femme narrative in The well of loneliness / Clare Hemmings
The well of shame / Sally R. Munt
The well of loneliness as war novel / Susan Kingsley Kent
War wounds: the nation, shell shock, and psychoanalysis in the well of loneliness / Jodie Medd
Of trees and polities, wars and wounds / Trevor Hope
"I want to cross over into camp ground": race and inversion in The well of loneliness / Jean Walton
"Something primitive and age-old as nature herself": lesbian sexuality and the permission of the exotic / Sarah E. Chinn
Once more unto the breach: The well of loneliness and the spaces of inversion / Victoria Rosner
Great cities: Radclyffe Hall at the Chicago School / Julie Abraham
Well meaning: pragmatism, lesbianism, and the U.S. obscenity trial / Kim Emery
Writing by the light of the well: Radclyffe hall and the lesbian modernists / Joanne Winning
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