Are Girls Necessary? : Lesbian Writing and Modern Histories.

By: Abraham, JulieMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (240 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780816666584Subject(s): American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism | English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism | Homosexuality and literature -- English-speaking countries | Lesbians in literature | Lesbians' writings, American -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Are Girls Necessary? : Lesbian Writing and Modern HistoriesDDC classification: 810.9/9206643 LOC classification: PS153.L46 -- A27 2008ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- 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.
Summary: 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 liberation movement experiments, are Abraham's geography. Within it, she offers detailed readings of major writers in several genres, from high modern to pulp, both British and American.
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Intro -- Contents -- 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.

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 liberation movement experiments, are Abraham's geography. Within it, she offers detailed readings of major writers in several genres, from high modern to pulp, both British and American.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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