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UNINA9910782846803321 |
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Autore |
Abraham Julie |
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Titolo |
Are girls necessary? [[electronic resource] ] : lesbian writing and modern histories / / Julie Abraham |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2008, c1996 |
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Edizione |
[1st University of Minnesota Press ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: New York : Routledge, 1996. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-206) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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