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Are girls necessary? : lesbian writing and modern histories / Julie Abraham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abraham, Julie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Homosexuality and literature--English-speaking countries.
- Homosexuality and literature.
- Lesbians in literature.
- Lesbians' writings, American--History and criticism.
- Lesbians' writings, American.
- Lesbians' writings, English--History and criticism.
- Lesbians' writings, English.
- Lesbians--English-speaking countries--Intellectual life.
- Lesbians.
- Women and literature--English-speaking countries--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st University of Minnesota Press ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008, c1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 liberati
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Routledge, 1996.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-206) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-6658-X
- OCLC:
- 318223265
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