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Autore: |
Abraham Julie
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Titolo: |
Are girls necessary? : 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 |
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