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UNINA9910778221803321 |
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Autore |
Marcus Sharon <1966-> |
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Titolo |
Between women [[electronic resource] ] : friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England / / Sharon Marcus |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-25912-1 |
9786612259128 |
1-4008-3085-0 |
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Edizione |
[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women - England - History |
Women - Social networks - England |
Lesbians - England - History |
Female friendship - England |
Women in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-346) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The female relations of Victorian England -- Friendship and the play of the system -- Just reading: female friendship and the marriage plot -- Dressing up and dressing down the feminine plaything -- The female accessory in Great expectations -- The genealogy of marriage -- Contracting female marriage in Can you forgive her? -- Woolf, Wilde and girl dates. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus shows, these women were not seen as gender outlaws. Their desires were fanned by consumer culture and their friendships and unions were accepted and even encouraged by family, society, and church. Far from being sexless angels defined only by male desires, Victorian women openly enjoyed looking at and even dominating other |
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