03634nam 2200769Ia 450 991045462410332120200520144314.00-8166-6658-X(CKB)1000000000723059(EBL)433167(OCoLC)318223265(SSID)ssj0000105404(PQKBManifestationID)11131056(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000105404(PQKBWorkID)10101715(PQKB)11231026(MiAaPQ)EBC433167(MdBmJHUP)muse38801(Au-PeEL)EBL433167(CaPaEBR)ebr10277738(CaONFJC)MIL525666(EXLCZ)99100000000072305920080207e20081996 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAre girls necessary?[electronic resource] lesbian writing and modern histories /Julie Abraham1st University of Minnesota Press ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press2008, c19961 online resource (240 p.)Originally published: New York : Routledge, 1996.0-8166-5676-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-206) and index.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.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 liberatiAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismHomosexuality and literatureEnglish-speaking countriesLesbians in literatureLesbians' writings, AmericanHistory and criticismLesbians' writings, EnglishHistory and criticismLesbiansEnglish-speaking countriesIntellectual lifeWomen and literatureEnglish-speaking countriesHistory20th centuryElectronic books.American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.Homosexuality and literatureLesbians in literature.Lesbians' writings, AmericanHistory and criticism.Lesbians' writings, EnglishHistory and criticism.LesbiansIntellectual life.Women and literatureHistory810.9/9206643Abraham Julie961982MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454624103321Are girls necessary2181138UNINA