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 activism
- Includes previously unpublished written and illustrated material by Brophy
- Contributions from leading literary scholars, biographers, creative writers and activists
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. Contributors include literary critics, animal rights activists, Brophy's daughter, Kate Levey, and Brophy herself.
Author: Richard Canning
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 03/03/2022
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.58d
ISBN13: 9781474462679
ISBN10: 1474462677
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Women Authors
- Literary Collections | LGBTQ+
- Literary Criticism | Feminist
About the Author
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, Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton and is co-editor of the annual yearbook Katherine Mansfield Studies. She is the deviser and Series Editor of the four-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2016) and the author of Katherine Mansfield: The View from France, and A Literary Modernist: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story.