The Well of Loneliness A Censored 1928 Queer Classic of Lesbian Identity, Social Exile, and the Fight for Recognition
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Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
23.05.2023
Verlag
E-artnowSeitenzahl
356
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/2 cm
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516 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-273-8631-4
Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness is a landmark novel of lesbian identity and social exile, centred on Stephen Gordon, an "invert" whose emotional life is rendered with grave psychological seriousness. Written in a restrained, earnest, late-Victorian realist mode, the book combines Bildungsroman, social protest, and spiritual plea. Its significance lies not only in its representation of same-sex desire but in its insistence that such lives be granted dignity, legality, and moral recognition. Hall, born Marguerite Radclyffe Hall in 1880, moved within artistic and queer circles in early twentieth-century England and drew upon contemporary sexological theories, especially those of Havelock Ellis, to frame Stephen's condition as innate rather than chosen. Her own relationships with women and her experience of social scrutiny shaped the novel's urgency. The book's 1928 obscenity trial and suppression made Hall a controversial public figure and transformed the novel into a cause célèbre. Readers should approach The Well of Loneliness as both literature and historical document: emotionally forceful, politically courageous, and at times constrained by the medical language of its era. It remains essential for anyone interested in queer literary history, censorship, modernism's margins, or the long struggle for social recognition.
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