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- Title
"THE VOICE OF THE PROPHET": FROM ASTROLOGICAL QUACKERY TO SEXOLOGICAL AUTHORITY IN DJUNA BARNES'S LADIES ALMANACK.
- Authors
Taylor, Julie
- Abstract
The article assesses the connections between the rhetorical authority of the 1928 "Ladies Almanack," by Djuna Barnes and the authority-subverting chronicle of the lesbian seductress Dame Evangeline Musset. It points out that the aim of using prophetic voices in the almanac is to satirize and discredit the authority of the contemporary sexologist. Also noted is the generic impurity tackled in the almanac. Parody and performance are cited as indications of the political agency of the text.
- Subjects
RHETORIC; AUTHORSHIP; LADIES Almanack (Book); BARNES, Djuna, 1892-1982; MUSSET, Evangeline
- Publication
Modern Fiction Studies, 2009, Vol 55, Issue 4, p716
- ISSN
0026-7724
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mfs.0.1639