Secrecy and Sapphic Modernism: Writing Romans à Clef Between the Wars
Book Details
Author(s)Sashi Nair
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN / ASIN0230298370
ISBN-139780230298378
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
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.
