Inseparable : desire between women in literature
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2010].
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9780307270948, 0307270947
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2010].
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Book
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x, 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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9780307270948, 0307270947

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-260) and index.
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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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Donoghue, E. (2010). Inseparable: desire between women in literature (First edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Donoghue, Emma, 1969-. 2010. Inseparable: Desire between Women in Literature. Alfred A. Knopf.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Donoghue, Emma, 1969-. Inseparable: Desire between Women in Literature Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Donoghue, Emma. Inseparable: Desire between Women in Literature First edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

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