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BRIGID BROPHY : avant-garde writer, critic, activist
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This book explores all aspects of Brophy's literary career, alongside contributions on animal rights, vegetarianism, anti-vivisectionism, humanism, feminism and sexual politics, not only celebratin...
This book explores all aspects of Brophy's literary career, alongside contributions on animal rights, vegetarianism, anti-vivisectionism, humanism, feminism and sexual politics, not only celebrating Brophy's eclectic achievements but fully reflecting them.
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- Creator
- edited by Richard Canning and Gerri Kember
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [S.l.] : EDINBURGH UNIV PRESS, 2020
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- data file
- ISBNs
- 1474462685, 9781474462686, 9781474462693, 1474462669, 9781474462662, 1474462693
- OCLC
- on1149071143, on1306541579
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction, Richard Canning; 1. Embodying the Fragments: A Reflection on the Reluctant Auto-Biography of Brigid Brophy, Phoebe Blatton; 2. Brigid Brophy's Paradoxical World of Childhood, Michael Bronski; 3. Introduction to 'The Librarian and the Novel', John Dixon; 4. The Librarian and the Novel: A Writer's View, Brigid Brophy; 5. Penetrating (the) Prancing Novelist, Richard Canning; 6. 'Shavian that she was', John Dixon; 7. 'Il faut que je vive': Brigid Brophy and Animal Rights, Gary Francione; 8. Brigid Brophy's Phenomenology of Sex in Flesh and The Snow Ball, Jonathan Gibbs; 9. Letter to Brigid, Rodney Hill; 10. Encoding Love: Hidden Correspondence in the Fiction of Brigid Brophy and Iris Murdoch, Miles Leeson; 11. Heads and Boxes: A Prop Art Exhibition Collaboration by Brigid Brophy and Maureen Duffy, Jill Longmate; 12. Brigid Brophy's Prancing Novelist and Black and White: Experiments in Biography, Peter Parker; 13. 'Monster Cupid': Brophy, Camp, and The Snow Ball, Allan Pero; 14. A Felicitous Day for Fish, Kim Stallwood; 15. Brigid Brophy: The Dissenting Feminist, Carole Sweeney; 16. A Certain Detachment?, Kate Levey; Notes on Contributors; Index