| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-260) and index. |
| Contents |
Travesties : The female bridegroom ; The male Amazon -- Inseparables : Shall we be sunder'd? ; Jealousies -- Rivals : Rakes vs. ladies ; Feminists vs. husbands ; The beautiful house -- Monsters : Sex fiends ; Secret enemies ; Not quite human -- Detection : Now you see it ; Crimes of passion ; It takes one to know one -- Out : Case histories ; On trial ; First love ; Devil may care ; Places for us. |
| Summary |
Emma Donoghue brings to bear all her knowledge and grasp to examine how desire between women in English literature has been portrayed, from schoolgirls and vampires to runaway wives, from cross-dressing knights to contemporary murder stories. Donoghue looks at the work of those writers who have addressed the "unspeakable subject," examining whether such desire between women is freakish or omnipresent, holy or evil, heartwarming or ridiculous as she excavates a long-obscured tradition of (inseparable) friendship between women, one that is surprisingly central to our cultural history--Book jacket. |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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French literature -- History and criticism.
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Lesbianism in literature.
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Desire in literature.
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Women in literature.
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| ISBN |
9780307270948 alkaline paper $27.95 |
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0307270947 alkaline paper |
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