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Brigid Brophy - by Richard Canning & Gerri Kimber (Paperback)
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- Celebrates Brigid Brophy's life's work, its diversity, originality and achievementThe 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covering all her interests from literature, music and art to animal rights and political activismIncludes previously unpublished written and illustrated material by BrophyContributions from leading literary scholars, biographers, creative writers and activistsThis book explores all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.
- About the Author: Richard Canning has taught English Literature at five UK universities, mostly recently as a Professor of British and American Literature.
- 264 Pages
- Literary Collections, Women Authors
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About the Book
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.
Book Synopsis
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covering all her interests from literature, music and art to animal rights and political activismIncludes previously unpublished written and illustrated material by BrophyContributions from leading literary scholars, biographers, creative writers and activistsThis book explores all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.
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'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 Sheffield Celebrates Brigid Brophy's life's work, its diversity, originality and achievement 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. Richard Canning has taught English Literature at five UK universities, most recently as a Professor of British and American Literature. He is currently Visiting Professor at the University of Buckingham. Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor in English at the University of Northampton, and Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society. Cover images: Brigid Brophy, kindly supplied by Kate Levey Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-6266-2 BarcodeReview Quotes
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 Sheffield
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 is a 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.