Radclyffe Hall’s Short Fiction: A Humble Ethics of the Flawed
The author’s note preceding “Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself” in Radclyffe Hall’s 1934 eponymous short story collection places the story under the direct notoriety of her scandalous novel The Well of Loneliness, thus orientating the readers’ way of dealing with the humble in terms of genre and also of con...
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2023
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| Dostęp online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Streszczenie: | The author’s note preceding “Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself” in Radclyffe Hall’s 1934 eponymous short story collection places the story under the direct notoriety of her scandalous novel The Well of Loneliness, thus orientating the readers’ way of dealing with the humble in terms of genre and also of content, especially at the time of the First World War. Still, the writer’s gallery of characters and contexts widens the scope of the humble beyond gender dysphoria before shifting the perspective from being humble to being humbled. If the characters seem deprived of agency in their relationship to the other, their invisibilisation is used as leverage to resist dispossession. Although, or precisely because it might fail, such a process results in what could be called an ethics of the flawed, here examined through Hall’s editorial choices which inform her treatment of the genre. |
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