{"product_id":"radclyffe-hall-a-life-in-the-writing-haney-foundation-series-9780812243468","title":"Radclyffe Hall: A Life in the Writing (Haney Foundation Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Well of Loneliness is probably the most famous lesbian novel ever written  and certainly the most widely read. It contains no explicit sex scenes  yet in 1928  the year in which the novel was published  it was deemed obscene in a British court of law for its defense of sexual inversion and was forbidden for sale or import into England. Its author  Radclyffe Hall  was already well-known as a writer and West End celebrity  but the fame and notoriety of that one book has all but eclipsed a literary output of some half-dozen other novels and several volumes of poetry.  In Radclyffe Hall: A Life in the Writing Richard Dellamora offers the first full look at the entire range of Halls published and unpublished works of fiction  poetry  and autobiography and reads through them to demonstrate how she continually played with the details of her own life to help fashion her own identity as well as to bring into existence a public lesbian culture. Along the way  Dellamora revises many of the truisms about Hall that had their origins in the memoirs of her long-term partner  Una Troubridge  and that have found an afterlife in the writings of Halls biographers.  In detailing Halls explorations of the self  Dellamora is the first seriously to consider their contexts in Freudian psychoanalysis as understood in England in the 1920s. As important  he uncovers Halls involvement with other modes of speculative psychology  including Spiritualism  Theosophy  and an eclectic brand of Christian and Buddhist mysticism. Dellamoras Hall is a woman of complex accommodations  able to reconcile her marriage to Troubridge with her passionate affairs with other women  and her experimental approach to gender and sexuality with her conservative politics and Catholicism. She is  above all  a thinker continually inventive about the connections between selfhood and desire  a figure who has much to contribute to our own efforts to understand transgendered and transsexual existence today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652009222197,"sku":"ByrdShop_0812243463","price":48.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780812243468.jpg?v=1781848675","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/radclyffe-hall-a-life-in-the-writing-haney-foundation-series-9780812243468","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}