Unwomanly Intellect: Melancholy, Maternity, and Lesbianism in Olive Moore's <i>Spleen</i>

Wagner, Johanna M.

doi:10.1080/20512856.2016.1221623

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Olive Moore Queer Ecology and Anthropocene Modernism David Shackleton1

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“…Johanna Wagner downplays Moore's apparently sexist comments and argues that Moore's animus is not directed at women themselves but at "the unfortunate cultural construction of the word 'woman.'" 8 Maren Linett takes a contrary approach: she describes how she was originally drawn to a reading of Spleen as a feminist novel, but eventually found such a reading unsustainable and claims instead that the novel is "deeply misogynist." 9 Moving beyond these alternatives, I read Spleen as a queer feminist text by taking inspiration from the "antisocial" strand of queer theory that is associated with theorists such as Leo Bersani, Lee Edelman, and Jack Halberstam.…”

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Olive Moore: a new biography

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In 1942, it was concluded simply that there was "no recent word" of writer Olive Moore even though her three novels, Celestial Seraglio (1929), Spleen (1930), and Fugue (1932), had been met with great critical acclaim just a decade prior. Upon the republication of her novels in the 1990s, it was stated that "she mysteriously disappeared from the literary scene in 1934 after which nothing was heard of her," a conclusion which has largely gone unchallenged ever since. This article seeks to provide a complete revision of this biography, utilizing never-before published archival material to extend Moore's timeline of work by almost three decades. It reframes Moore's experimental fiction as a small, early component of a remarkable and resourceful career in which she would hone her craft as a writer and journalist. By highlighting the significance of Moore's early journalism at John O'London's Weekly, the Sunday Pictorial, and the Daily Sketch, and by introducing her newly discovered journalism at Scope from 1942-1959, this article proposes that the renewed vigor in feminist modernist studies, in combination with Moore's newly extended biography, marks a pivotal moment in which the long-overdue academic revival of Moore and her work can finally gain proper momentum.

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Unwomanly Intellect: Melancholy, Maternity, and Lesbianism in Olive Moore's Spleen

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Olive Moore, Queer Ecology, and Anthropocene Modernism

Olive Moore, Queer Ecology, and Anthropocene Modernism

Olive Moore: a new biography

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