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Canning, Richard
[Author];
Kimber, Gerri
[Author]
;
Blatton, Phoebe
[Contributor];
Bronski, Michael
[Contributor];
Brophy, Brigid
[Contributor];
Canning, Richard
[Contributor];
Dixon, John
[Contributor];
Francione, Gary L.
[Contributor];
Gibbs, Jonathan
[Contributor];
Hill, Rodney
[Contributor];
Leeson, Miles
[Contributor];
Levey, Kate
[Contributor];
Longmate, Jill
[Contributor];
Parker, Peter
[Contributor];
Pero, Allan
[Contributor];
Stallwood, Kim
[Contributor];
Sweeney, Carole
[Contributor]
Brigid Brophy
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- Media type: E-Book
- Title: Brigid Brophy : Avant-Garde Writer, Critic, Activist
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Contains:
Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Embodying the Fragments: A Reflection on the Reluctant Auto-Biography of Brigid Brophy
2 Brigid Brophy’s Paradoxical World of Childhood
3 Introduction to ‘The Librarian and the Novel’
4 The Librarian and the Novel: A Writer’s View
5 Penetrating (the) Prancing Novelist
6 ‘Shavian that she was’
7 ‘Il faut que je vive’: Brigid Brophy and Animal Rights
8 Brigid Brophy’s Phenomenology of Sex in Flesh and The Snow Ball
9 Letter to Brigid
10 Encoding Love: Hidden Correspondence in the Fiction of Brigid Brophy and Iris Murdoch
11 ‘Heads and Boxes’: A Prop Art Exhibition Collaboration by Brigid Brophy and Maureen Duffy
12 Prancing Novelist and Black and White: Experiments in Biography
13 ‘Mo nster Cupid’: Brophy, Camp and The Snow Ball
14 ‘A Felicitous Day for Fish’
15 The Dissenting Feminist
16 A Certain Detachment?
Notes on Contributors
Index
- Contributor: Canning, Richard [VerfasserIn]; Blatton, Phoebe [MitwirkendeR]; Bronski, Michael [MitwirkendeR]; Brophy, Brigid [MitwirkendeR]; Canning, Richard [MitwirkendeR]; Dixon, John [MitwirkendeR]; Francione, Gary L. [MitwirkendeR]; Gibbs, Jonathan [MitwirkendeR]; Hill, Rodney [MitwirkendeR]; Kimber, Gerri [VerfasserIn]; Leeson, Miles [MitwirkendeR]; Levey, Kate [MitwirkendeR]; Longmate, Jill [MitwirkendeR]; Parker, Peter [MitwirkendeR]; Pero, Allan [MitwirkendeR]; Stallwood, Kim [MitwirkendeR]; Sweeney, Carole [MitwirkendeR]
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imprint:
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
- Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (264 p.); 12 B/W illustrations
- Language: English
- DOI: 10.1515/9781474462686
- ISBN: 9781474462686
- Identifier:
- Keywords: Women authors Biography ; Women political activists England Biography ; Literary Studies ; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / LGBT
- Origination:
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Footnote:
In English
- Description: Celebrates Brigid Brophy’s life’s work, its diversity, originality and achievementThe first critical book on Brigid Brophy covering all her interests from literature, music and art to animal rights and political activismIncludes previously unpublished written and illustrated material by BrophyContributions from leading literary scholars, biographers, creative writers and activistsThis book explores all aspects of Brophy’s literary career, alongside contributions on animal rights, vegetarianism, anti-vivisectionism, humanism, feminism and sexual politics, not only celebrating Brophy’s eclectic achievements but fully reflecting them. Contributors include literary critics, animal rights activists, Brophy’s daughter, Kate Levey, and Brophy herself
- Access State: Restricted Access | Information to licenced electronic resources of the SLUB