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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454624103321

Autore

Abraham Julie

Titolo

Are girls necessary? [[electronic resource] ] : lesbian writing and modern histories / / Julie Abraham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2008, c1996

ISBN

0-8166-6658-X

Edizione

[1st University of Minnesota Press ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/9206643

Soggetti

American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Homosexuality and literature - English-speaking countries

Lesbians in literature

Lesbians' writings, American - History and criticism

Lesbians' writings, English - History and criticism

Lesbians - English-speaking countries - Intellectual life

Women and literature - English-speaking countries - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: New York : Routledge, 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Willa Cather's new world histories -- Mary Renault's Greek drama -- Washington, James, (Toklas), and Stein -- Djuna Barnes, memory, and forgetting -- Virginia Woolf and the sexual histories of literature.

Sommario/riassunto

Are girls necessary?'' asks Julie Abraham in this provocative study of 20th-century lesbian writing. Examining the development of lesbian writing in English across the 20th Century, Abraham identifies a shift from this ``romance'' model to a more complicated ``history'' model. The great modernists, Woolf and Stein, as well as the popular writers of succeeding generations, like Mary Renault, looked to historical narratives, creating an important change in the way the ``lesbian story'' is built. The possibilities in lesbian writing, from the early



romance plots through to the post-1960s liberati