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Lesbian disPossession : the apparitionalization and sensationalization of female homosexuality in A. S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance
The author unearths the retrograde politics of lesbian sexuality that inform A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance. She investigates Possession’s use of blanching metaphors and spectral intertextualization (from James to Coleridge) by which Blanche Glover’s lesbianism is apparitionalized. Parallels are also drawn between Glover/Leonora Stern and the construction of “good”/“dangerous” homosexuals in UK parliamentary discourse attending the Section 28 amendment, which sought legally to curtail homosexual visibility in the late 1980s, when Possession was written.
Funding
Category 1 - Australian Competitive Grants (this includes ARC, NHMRC)
History
Volume
49Issue
4Start Page
357End Page
378Number of Pages
22eISSN
1939-9138ISSN
0011-1619Location
Washington, DCPublisher
Heldref Publications, Helen Dwight Reid Educational FoundationLanguage
en-ausPeer Reviewed
- Yes
Open Access
- No
External Author Affiliations
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education; TBA Research Institute;Era Eligible
- Yes
