Inseparable : desire between women in literature / Emma Donoghue.
2010
PR149.L47 D67 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Inseparable : desire between women in literature / Emma Donoghue.
Author
Donoghue, Emma, 1969-
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780307270948 (alk. paper)
0307270947 (alk. paper)
0307270947 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Language
English
Description
x, 271 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
PR149.L47 D67 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
860.9/3526643
Summary
Explores the little-known literary tradition of love between women in Western literature, from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Agatha Christie, and many more. Donoghue examines 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. She writes about the half-dozen contrasting girl-girl plots that have been retold throughout the centuries; explores the writings of Sade, Diderot, Balzac, Thomas Hardy, H. Rider Haggard, Elizabeth Bowen and others and the ways in which the woman who desires women has been cast as not quite human, as ghost or vampire; she writes about the ever-present triangle, in which a woman and a man compete for the heroine's love, and about how and why same-sex attraction is surprisingly ubiquitous in crime fiction, from the work of Wilkie Collins and Dorothy L. Sayers to that of P.D. James. Finally she examines the plotline that has dominated writings about desire between women since the late nineteenth century: how a woman's life is turned upside down by the realization that she desires another woman, showing how this narrative pattern has remained popular and how it has taken many forms--From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of 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.
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.