Are girls necessary? [[electronic resource] ] : lesbian writing and modern histories / / Julie Abraham
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Abraham Julie
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| Titolo: |
Are girls necessary? [[electronic resource] ] : lesbian writing and modern histories / / Julie Abraham
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2008, c1996 |
| Edizione: | 1st University of Minnesota Press ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/9206643 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Are girls necessary |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-6658-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814080003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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