Brigid Brophy
Avant-Garde Writer, Critic, Activist
Published on 26. May 2020
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-1-4744-6266-2 (ISBN)
Description
Celebrates Brigid Brophy's life's work, its diversity, originality and achievement
The first critical book on Brigid Brophy covering all her interests from literature, music and art to animal rights and political activismIncludes previously unpublished written and illustrated material by BrophyContributions from leading literary scholars, biographers, creative writers and activistsThis book explores all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. Contributors include literary critics, animal rights activists, Brophy's daughter, Kate Levey, and Brophy herself.
The first critical book on Brigid Brophy covering all her interests from literature, music and art to animal rights and political activismIncludes previously unpublished written and illustrated material by BrophyContributions from leading literary scholars, biographers, creative writers and activistsThis book explores all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. Contributors include literary critics, animal rights activists, Brophy's daughter, Kate Levey, and Brophy herself.
Reviews / Votes
Brigid Brophy, uniquely significant in postwar British literary, cultural and public intellectual life, is also its most egregiously neglected genius. This astonishing volume--which, as befits its subject, is honest, multifaceted and exploding with critical and imaginative intelligence--does a great and necessary service to her legacy, and to the history of twentieth-century letters. -- Robert McKay, University of SheffieldMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
12 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-6266-2 (9781474462662)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Richard Canning has taught English Literature at five UK universities, mostly recently as a Professor of British and American Literature. He is the author or editor of nine books, including Gay Fiction Speaks and the Lambda Literary Editors' Choice Award-winning Hear Us Out (both Columbia University Press, 2000 and 2004). Gerri Kimber is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton, and a professional writer and book reviewer.
Content
Contents
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements
IntroductionRichard Canning
1. Embodying the Fragments: A Reflection on the Reluctant Auto-Biography of Brigid BrophyPhoebe Blatton
2. Brigid Brophy's Paradoxical World of ChildhoodMichael Bronski
3. Introduction to 'The Librarian and the Novel'John Dixon
4. The Librarian and the Novel: A Writer's ViewBrigid 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 BallJonathan Gibbs
9. Letter to BrigidRodney Hill
10. Encoding Love: Hidden Correspondence in the Fiction of Brigid Brophy and Iris MurdochMiles Leeson
11. Heads and Boxes: A Prop Art Exhibition Collaboration by Brigid Brophy and Maureen DuffyJill Longmate
12. Brigid Brophy's Prancing Novelist and Black and White: Experiments in BiographyPeter Parker
13. 'Monster Cupid': Brophy, Camp, and The Snow BallAllan Pero
14. A Felicitous Day for FishKim Stallwood
15. Brigid Brophy: The Dissenting Feminist Carole Sweeney
16. A Certain Detachment?Kate Levey
Notes on ContributorsIndex
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements
IntroductionRichard Canning
1. Embodying the Fragments: A Reflection on the Reluctant Auto-Biography of Brigid BrophyPhoebe Blatton
2. Brigid Brophy's Paradoxical World of ChildhoodMichael Bronski
3. Introduction to 'The Librarian and the Novel'John Dixon
4. The Librarian and the Novel: A Writer's ViewBrigid 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 BallJonathan Gibbs
9. Letter to BrigidRodney Hill
10. Encoding Love: Hidden Correspondence in the Fiction of Brigid Brophy and Iris MurdochMiles Leeson
11. Heads and Boxes: A Prop Art Exhibition Collaboration by Brigid Brophy and Maureen DuffyJill Longmate
12. Brigid Brophy's Prancing Novelist and Black and White: Experiments in BiographyPeter Parker
13. 'Monster Cupid': Brophy, Camp, and The Snow BallAllan Pero
14. A Felicitous Day for FishKim Stallwood
15. Brigid Brophy: The Dissenting Feminist Carole Sweeney
16. A Certain Detachment?Kate Levey
Notes on ContributorsIndex