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A Lesbian Eroticism of Style in Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body, Emma Donoghue’s Hood, and Sarah Waters’ Tipping the Velvet

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posted on 2020-09-26, 07:39 authored by AURORA LUCIEN
As influential canonical postmodern erotic lesbian novels, Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body, Emma Donoghue’s Hood, and Sarah Waters’ Tipping the Velvet are mostly analysed for lesbian eroticism via devices of anti-binarism and structure, but not aspects of style. This thesis begins with a literature review and literary history which introduces the issue of the relationship between lesbian eroticism and literary style in lesbian literary criticism. The three subsequent textual analysis chapters form case studies arguing that the criticism of these novels has overlooked the aesthetic significance of a lesbian eroticism of style.

History

Principal supervisor

Susan Rachelle Kossew

Additional supervisor 1

Melinda Harvey

Additional supervisor 2

Anna Poletti

Year of Award

2020

Department, School or Centre

School of Language, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics

Course

Doctor of Philosophy

Degree Type

DOCTORATE

Campus location

Australia

Faculty

Faculty of Arts