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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Brophy, Brigid, 1929-1995 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Brophy, Brigid, 1929-1995. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Brophy, Brigid 1929-1995. |
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Brophy, Brigid, 1929-1995. |
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Women authors -- Biography.
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Women authors -- Biography. |
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Women political activists -- England -- Biography.
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Women political activists. |
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England. |
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Biographies.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Gay & Lesbian. |
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Women authors. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Canning, Richard.
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Kember, Gerri.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1474462669 9781474462662 (OCoLC)1117566197 |
| ISBN |
9781474462686 (electronic book) |
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1474462685 (electronic book) |
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1474462669 |
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9781474462662 |
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9781474462693 Electronic book (EPUB format) |
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1474462693 |
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