Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to ‘Gentleman Jack' - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1009280740 ISBN 13: 9781009280747

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

The ground-breaking first collection of essays on Anne Lister, featuring both established and new scholars, a screenwriter and a novelist.

About this title

About the Authors

Caroline Gonda is College Associate Professor and Director of Studies in English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. She was the first person appointed to the post of LGBTQ+ Fellow at a Cambridge College. With John Beynon, she co-edited the pioneering collection Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century (2010). She writes and teaches on literature, gender and sexuality, particularly lesbian narrative and queer reception.

Chris Roulston is Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies and French Studies at the University of Western Ontario. She has been a leading Lister scholar for the last decade. Her essays on Lister's relationship with Eliza Raine, classical literature, queer sexuality, marriage and Gentleman Jack have appeared in Eighteenth-Century Studies (2022), the Journal of Lesbian Studies (2013, 2022), and the Journal of the History of Sexuality (2021).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009280740
• ISBN 13: 9781009280747
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 302
• Editor: Gonda