Decoding Anne Lister from the archive to 'Gentleman Jack'
This is the first edited collection of essays on the nineteenth-century diarist Anne Lister. Now recognized as a UNESCO world heritage document, Lister's five-million-word diaries are paradigm-shifting in terms of their range of material, from social commentary and politics to breath-taking tra...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press
2023.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009818434706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Notes
- Chapter 1 Caroline Gonda in Conversation with Helena Whitbread
- Part I 'Nature was in an odd freak when she made me': Lister, Sexuality, Gender and Natural History
- Chapter 2 A Regular Oddity: Natural History and Anne Lister's Queer Theory of Tradition
- The Past, On Time
- It Was All Nature
- Notes
- Chapter 3 Anne Lister's Search for the Anatomy of Sex
- Notes
- Part II 'My spirit's oil': Lister Reading, Lister Writing
- Chapter 4 'My Use of the Word Love': Lister, Language and the Dictionary
- Lister's Lookups
- Novel Denominations
- A Legacy in Words
- Notes
- Chapter 5 Self-Conscious Closeting and Paradoxical Writing in Anne Lister's Diaries
- Spatial Tropes
- Self-Conscious and Unconscious Closets
- Domestic and Physical Closets
- Thresholds and Risk-Taking
- Diary Code as Split Paratext?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Part III 'Born at Halifax': Lister's Politics, Local and Global
- Chapter 6 Anne Lister's Politics
- Notes
- Chapter 7 'Building Castles in the Air': Anne Lister and Associational Life
- Under Existing Rules: Women in the Lit. and Phil.
- The Late 'Lit. and Phil.' Movement and Shifting Modes of Participation
- 'This my Native Town': Anne Lister's Investment in Halifax
- Castles in the Air: Imagining Female Participation
- Notes
- Chapter 8 Anne Lister's Home
- Introduction
- Shibden Hall's History
- Anne Lister's Inheritance
- Anne Lister's Alterations to Shibden Hall
- Anne Lister's Landscape
- Anne Lister's Collections
- Interpreting Anne Lister at Shibden
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Part IV 'Curious scenes': Lister's Travels.
- Chapter 9 'The Art of Travelling Requires an Apprenticeship': Anne Lister's Diaries and Travel
- Travel Writing Studies
- Anne Lister's Travels and her Diaries
- Scholarly and Popular Interest in Anne Lister's Travels
- Anne Lister's Diaries as Evidence for Travel Planning
- Public and Private Narratives in Anne Lister's Home Tours
- Class and Gender in Anne Lister's Home Tours
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter 10 Travelling in the Caucasus, Travelling in Time: Decoding Biography as Genre
- Books and Reality
- Kutaisi
- The Colchic Forest
- Towards Racha
- Patriarchy
- Utsera
- Glacier
- Violence
- Everything Flows
- Lost
- Mingrelia
- Notes
- Part V 'I beg to be remembered': Lister, Public History and Popular Culture
- Chapter 11 Labels, Plaques and Identity Categories: Finding the Words for Anne Lister
- Prologue: Shibden Hall
- A Tale of Two Plaques
- The Dead Sea Scrolls of Lesbian History
- 'I look within myself &
- doubt': Lister's Self-Construction
- Plaques and Projections
- Conclusion: No Time like the Present
- Notes
- Chapter 12 From Anne Lister to Gentleman Jack: Queer Temporality, Fandom and the Gains and Losses of Adaptation
- Notes
- Chapter 13 Emma Donoghue in Conversation with Sally Wainwright
- Select Bibliography on Anne Lister
- Index.
