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

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.

Author: S. Nair
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/02/2011
Pages: 207
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780230298378

About the Author
SASHI NAIR is based at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include queer and feminist literary studies, modernist women's writing, and intersections between queer and postcolonial writing in male and female-authored texts of the early twentieth century. She has published articles on Sapphic modernism and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'.