'Creatures Born of the Wasteland': Modernity and Female Masculinity from 1880 to 1930

我的项目探讨了1880-1930年女性写作中男性气质的替代表现，包括弗农李，迈克尔菲尔德和维塔萨克维尔-韦斯特的作品。特别是，它质疑新女性的男子气概（经常被用来诽谤她和她所代表的政治改革）是否可以--或者应该--与酷儿作者描绘非规范形式的愿望相协调。在他们的小说中性别化的体现。为了实现这一目标，它将性别不符合作家的文学作品与来自同一时期的各种跨学科的女性男性气质来源进行对话，这表明他们的作品可以用来创造一个“反话语”，使他们在主流想象中的传统配置复杂化。最终，它假定，当通过这个透镜观看时，他们的工作具有未实现的潜力，作为一个激进的“史前史”，以我们当代的性别身份作为一种自决行为的概念。

My project explores representations of alternate masculinities in women's writing from 1880-1930, including the works of Vernon Lee, Michael Field and Vita Sackville-West. In particular, it questions whether the masculinity of the New Woman, which is often used to vilify her and the political reform she stands for, can - or should - be reconciled with the desire of queer authors to depict non-normative forms of gendered embodiment in their fiction. To achieve this aim, it places literature produced by gender non-conforming writers in dialogue with a variety of interdisciplinary sources about female masculinity from the same period, suggesting that their work can be used to create a 'counter-discourse' that complicates their conventional configuration in the mainstream imagination. Ultimately, it posits that, when viewed through this lens, their work has the unrealised potential to act as a radical 'prehistory' to our contemporary notion of gender identity as an act of self-determination.