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Secrecy and Sapphic Modernism

Reading Romans à Clef Between the Wars
By:S. Nair
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230298378
eText ISBN:9780230356184
Edition:0
Copyright:2012
Format:Page Fidelity

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Novels by significant Modernist authors can be described as romans à clef , providing insight into restrictions governing the representation of female homosexuality in the early twentieth century. Nair argues that key novels of the period represented same-sex desire through the encryption of personal references directed towards coterie audiences.