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The Well of Loneliness
The Well of Loneliness

The Well of Loneliness

Author: 
Radclyffe Hall; Jana Funke; Hannah Roche
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  • A new edition of Radcylffe Hall's most popular novel, famously banned as 'obscene' in the UK in 1928
  • The work has resonated with generations of readers and inspired vibrant and ongoing debates about gender and sexuality, modernist culture, LGBTQ+ identity and community, and censorship and freedom of speech
  • This critical edition opens up original readings of the novel by charting Radclyffe Hall's engagement with a wealth of literary, religious, and scientific sources

   
'If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours.'
  
The Well of Loneliness is among the most famous banned books in history. A pioneering work of literature, Radclyffe Hall's novel charts the development of a 'female sexual invert', Stephen Gordon, who from childhood feels an innate sense of masculinity and desire for women. After relocating from Malvern to London and then to Paris, Stephen encounters fellow queer characters from all walks of life, from the sapphic salon hostess Valérie Seymour to the 'miserable army' of outcasts that frequents the 'merciless, drug-dealing, death-dealing' bars of Montmartre. Although Stephen and her acquaintances, allies, and antagonists are of their time, Hall's novel has offered support and solidarity to generations of LGBTQ+ readers, and it continues to shape debates about gender and sexuality today.
  
This edition highlights previously overlooked points of influence, inspiration, and connections with other texts as well as situating the novel in historical contexts. In addition, the editors provide vital insights into Hall's engagement with religion, sexology, literary history, and popular culture.
 

Index: 

Biographical Preface
Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Radclyffe Hall

THE WELL OF LONELINESS

Explanatory Notes
Appendix

About the author: 

Radclyffe Hall
Edited by Jana Funke, University of Exeter, and Hannah Roche, University of York
  
Jana Funke is Associate Professor of English Literature and Sexuality Studies at the University of Exeter. Among other volumes, she has edited The World and Other Unpublished Works by Radclyffe Hall (2016) and, with Elizabeth English and Sarah Parker, Interrogating Lesbian Modernism: Histories, Forms, Genres (2023). She is the author of Sexological Modernism: Queer Feminism and Sexual Science (2024).
  
Hannah Roche is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of York. She is the author of The Outside Thing: Modernist Lesbian Romance (2019), which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Hannah has published articles on queer modernism in Textual Practice, Essays in Criticism, Modernist Cultures, and Modernism/modernity.

Product details

ISBN : 9780192894458

Author: 
Radclyffe Hall; Jana Funke; Hannah Roche
Pages
544 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
196 x 129 mm
Pub date
Oct 2024
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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The Well of Loneliness

The Well of Loneliness

The Well of Loneliness