Are girls necessary? : lesbian writing and modern histories

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Are girls necessary? : lesbian writing and modern histories

Title remainder

lesbian writing and modern histories

Statement of responsibility

Julie Abraham

Creator

• Abraham, Julie

Subject

• American fiction
• American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• American fiction -- Women authors
• American fiction -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic books
• English fiction
• English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• English fiction -- Women authors
• English fiction -- Women authors | History and criticism
• English-speaking countries
• History
• Homosexuality and literature
• Homosexuality and literature -- English-speaking countries
• 1900-1999
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gay & Lesbian
• Lesbians -- English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life
• Lesbians -- Intellectual life
• Lesbians in literature
• Lesbians in literature
• Lesbians' writings, American
• Lesbians' writings, American -- History and criticism
• Lesbians' writings, English
• Lesbians' writings, English -- History and criticism
• Women and literature
• Women and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General

Genre

• Electronic books
• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

N$T

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography