Noël Coward and Radclyffe Hall by Terry Castle

Publication in 1928, the British government took offense at The Loneliness, her best-known work, is relentlessly melancholy. Hall is dourĪnd self-dramatizing in literature and in life, she appears to haveĮpitomized the caricature of the humorless lesbian. Other scholars have noted their connection, butĬastle is the first to explore the relationship and its literaryĪt first glance, Hall and Coward seem like opposites. Style and persona, were friends who haunted each other's lives, Noel Coward, despite dramatic differences in age, temperament, prose She argues that the novelist Radclyffe Hall and the playwright/actor In Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall: Kindred Spirits, Reporting back in her usual chatty style (even her footnotes are aĭelightful read). She still explores the phantasmic realm with magnificent results, The 'haunt' is something that won't goĪway, that can't be frightened out of existence or killed.Ĭastle's big ghost book has yet to achieve corporeal form, but Ghost denies her lusty bodily reality, yet dramatizes her power and To write The Apparitional Lesbian (1993), in which she showedīrilliantly that woman-to-woman eroticism is, in Western literature.Ĭonstantly represented in supernatural terms. Post-Enlightenment waning of belief in ghosts. Spent years working on what was to be a landmark analysis of Intimately rooted in the human realm, theyīefore homosexuality became an explicit theme in her work, Castle Was in fact getting on in years and looking pale. 'Derrida's ghost' in the presence of the living man, who Nothing more than a flashy way of talking about subtext at oneĬonference a few years ago, panelists tactlessly discussed Spectral metaphorsĪre trendy these days in academic Pomo World, but they often provide Terry Castle is a literature scholar possessed. Retrieved from īy Terry Castle, Columbia. APA style: Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall: Kindred Spirits.Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall: Kindred Spirits.' Retrieved from MLA style: 'Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall: Kindred Spirits.' The Free Library.

Noël Coward and Radclyffe Hall by Terry Castle