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

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• History
• Electronic books

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