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Camp and Consolation: Modernist Female Drag as Resistant Mourning in Interwar Literature

Swinford, Elise
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1248891602

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2009, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
This thesis examines the notion of modernist female drag as a means of resisting institutionalized forms of mourning between the First and Second World Wars. By problematizing the Freudian concept of mourning, I explore ways in which non-normative gender performances challenged the forms of mourning available after World War One. Texts considered include Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, as well as the real social drama surrounding the 1917 Maud Allan libel case. At a historical moment when gender roles were in turmoil, the gender performances represented in these texts as well as the social drama of Maud Allan suggest the gaps in normative gender identities that allowed for social and political change.
Madelyn Detloff (Committee Chair)
Katie Johnson (Committee Member)
Timothy Melley (Committee Member)
69 p.
Gender; Literature; Womens Studies
modernism; mourning; gender performance

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  • Swinford, E. (2009). Camp and Consolation: Modernist Female Drag as Resistant Mourning in Interwar Literature [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1248891602

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Swinford, Elise. Camp and Consolation: Modernist Female Drag as Resistant Mourning in Interwar Literature. 2009. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1248891602.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Swinford, Elise. "Camp and Consolation: Modernist Female Drag as Resistant Mourning in Interwar Literature." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1248891602

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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