Your John: The Love Letters of Radclyffe Hall: 4 (The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series) - Softcover

Aarnio, Aulis; Arora, Poonam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814731252 ISBN 13: 9780814731253

Verlag: NYU Press, 1999

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Críticas:

"Passionate and revealing love letters from the iconic lesbian novelist...Radclyffe Hall is getting a fresh look...Glasgow has chosen these letters well and provides helpful context." * Kirkus * "Many assumptions have been made about the degree to which Radclyffe Hall's lesbian classic, The Well of Loneliness, may be autobiographical. Your John dismisses such notions. This exhaustive collection of letters written between 1934 and 1942 to Evguenia Souline, a White Russian emigre with whom Hall fell deeply in love with are detailed, intimate records of Hall's personal life and convictions...the collection is a heart-wrenching record of how politics, money, and geography converged to undermine these women's dreams." * Publisher's Weekly *

Contraportada:

This book represents the first publication of original writing by Radclyffe Hall, author of The Well of Loneliness, in over fifty years. Deciphered and edited by Hall scholar and biographer Joanne Glasgow, Your John is a selection of Hall's love letters to Evguenia Souline, a White Russian emigre with whom Hall fell completely and passionately in love in the summer of 1934. Written between this first meeting and the onset of Hall's last illness in 1942, these letters detail Hall's growing obsession, the pain to her life partner, Una Troubridge, of this betrayal, and the poignant hopelessness of a happy resolution for any of the three women. It was ultimately this relationship, Glasgow argues, that tragically precipitated the decline in Hall's creative work and in her health. The letters also provide important new information about her views on lesbianism, and take us well beyond the artistic limits she imposed on the characters in The Well. They shed light on her thinking about religion, politics, war, and the literary and artistic scene.

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• Verlag: NYU Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0814731252
• ISBN 13: 9780814731253
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 300
• Herausgeber: Glasgow Joanne