Of Dashes, Gashes, and Wounds: Radclyffe Hall and the Medieval Devotion of "Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself"
This article places Radclyffe Hall's "Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself" in relation to a variety of discursive contexts. particularly medieval iconography and Old and New Testament biblical allusions. I show that while the story gestures toward the familiar images of a wounded Christ, Hall i...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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Religion & literature
Year: 2020, Volume: 52, Issue: 2, Pages: 67-90 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hall, Radclyffe 1880-1943, Miss Ogilvy finds herself
/ Middle Ages
/ Iconography
/ Injury
/ LGBT
/ Identity
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CE Christian art KAC Church history 500-1500; Middle Ages KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NCF Sexual ethics |
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Bible. New Testament
B Medieval iconography B Hall, Radclyffe B Spiritualism B Jesus Christ |
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| Summary: | This article places Radclyffe Hall's "Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself" in relation to a variety of discursive contexts. particularly medieval iconography and Old and New Testament biblical allusions. I show that while the story gestures toward the familiar images of a wounded Christ, Hall is less interested in a Messiah who saves and is more interested in a collective vulnerability that embraces and tarries with the grief of gendered wounding To this end, my discussion performs a pair of linked functions: first, it delivers a new interpretive mechanism for reading "Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself" in light of the medieval Christian tradition; and second. it blazes a specific path through the annals of wound iconography parsing a quatrain of orientations-psychic wound, war wound, side wound, and cloth wound-as I unravel Hall's spiritual, psychological, and deeply philosophical account of gendered identity. |
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| ISSN: | 2328-6911 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/rel.2020.0003 |