| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 282 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Caroline Gonda in Conversation with Helena Whitbread -- A Regular Oddity: Natural History and Anne Lister's Queer Theory of Tradition / Laurie Shannon -- Anne Lister's search for the anatomy of sex / Anna Clark -- 'My Use of the Word Love': Lister, Language and the Dictionary / Stephen Turton -- Self-Conscious Closeting and Paradoxical Writing in Anne Lister's Diaries / Caroline Baylis-Green -- Anne Lister's politics / Susan S. Lanser -- 'Building Castles in the Air': Anne Lister and Associational Life / Cassandra Ulph -- Anne Lister's home / Angela Clare -- 'The Art of Travelling Requires an Apprenticeship': Anne Lister's Diaries and Travel / Kitty McHugh -- Travelling in the Caucasus, Travelling in Time: Decoding Biography as Genre / Angela Steidele -- Labels, Plaques and Identity Categories: Finding the Words for Anne Lister / Caroline Gonda -- From Anne Lister to Gentleman Jack: queer temporality, fandom, and the gains and losses of adaptation / Chris Roulston -- Emma Donoghue in conversation with Sally Wainwright |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
"The first edited collection of essays on the nineteenth-century diarist Anne Lister, this interdisciplinary collection highlights how her five-million-word diaries shifted paradigms and created awareness around same-sex practices. It engages with Lister's influence beyond academia through to her present-day screen adaptation"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 10, 2023) |
| Subject |
Lister, Anne, 1791-1840.
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| SUBJECT |
Lister, Anne, 1791-1840 fast |
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Lesbians -- England -- Biography
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Lesbians -- England -- History -- 19th century
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Sex role -- England -- History -- 19th century
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Lesbians
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Sex role
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Roulston, Chris, editor
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Gonda, Caroline, editor.
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| LC no. |
2022062064 |
| ISBN |
9781009280723 |
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1009280724 |
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9781009280778 |
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1009280775 |
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1009280767 |
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9781009280761 |
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