 | The Outside Thing: Modernist Lesbian Romance Subjects: Lesbians writings American -- History and criticism; Lesbians writings English -- History and criticism; Literature Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Lesbianism in literature; Stein Gertrude 1874–1946 -- Criticism and interpretation; H; Hannah Roche reinterprets three major modern lesbian writers, showing how literary and affective romance played a crucial yet overlooked role in the works of Gertrude Stein, Radclyffe Hall, and Djuna Barnes. The Outside Thing is a significant rethinking of the interconnections between queer writing, lesbian living, and literary modernism. Roche Hannah : Hannah Roche is a Postgraduate Research Student in the School of English at the University of Leeds, where she defended her dissertation in 2016 under the supervision of Jay Prosser. She is the author of "An 'ordinary novel': Genre Trouble in Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness ", Textual Practice 31:5, 2017 and "The Making of an American (in France): Gertrude Stein and the (Ex)Patriot Paradox", in Mapping the Self: Place, Identity, Nationality , ed. by Alex Goody, Anna Hewitt, and Nissa Parmar (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015).Hannah Roche is lecturer in twentieth-century literature and culture at the University of York. She has published articles on lesbian modernism in Textual Practice and Modernist Cultures . |
