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Are girls necessary? : lesbian writing and modern histories
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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 identif...
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 r̀̀omance'' model to a more complicated h̀̀istory'' 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 l̀̀esbian story'' is built. The possibilities in lesbian writing, from the early romance plots through to the post-1960s liberati.
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- Creator
- Julie Abraham
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st University of Minnesota Press ed
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 213 pages)
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- ISBNs
- 9780816666584, 081666658X, 0816656762, 9780816656769
- OCLC
- ocn318223265, ocn191898235
- Originally published: New York : Routledge, 1996.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-206) and index.
- Preface: "Are Girls Necessary?"; Introduction: "I Have a Narrative"; Part I: "Tell the Lacadaemonians"; 1. Willa Cather's New World Histories; 2. Mary Renault's Greek Drama; Part II: "Love Is Writing"; 3. Washington, James, (Toklas), and Stein; 4. Djuna Barnes, Memory, and Forgetting; 5. Virginia Woolf and the Sexual Histories of Literature; Afterword: "Reading and the Experiences of Everyday Life"; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
Subjects
- Lesbians' writings, American -- History and criticism.
- Lesbians' writings, English -- History and criticism.
- Lesbians -- English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life.
- Lesbians in literature.
- Homosexuality and literature -- English-speaking countries.
- Women and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century.
- American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.