Brigid Brophy: Avant-Garde Writer, Critic, Activist

Brigid Brophy: Avant-Garde Writer, Critic, Activist

Richard Canning (Editor), Gerri Kimber (Editor)
$125.00
Publication Date: May 26th, 2020
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:
9781474462662
Pages:
264
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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  • Includes previously unpublished written and illustrated material by Brophy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.

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.