Impossible Women : : Lesbian Figures and American Literature / / Valerie Rohy.
Impossible Women fills a critical gap in queer theory by spotlighting representations of lesbian sexuality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. Reading through the lens of feminist and psychoanalytic theory, Valerie Rohy considers texts by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kate Chopin, Henry...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Reading Impossibility
- Chapter one. The Romance of the Real.
- Chapter two. The Reproduction of Meaning.
- Chapter three. Modernist Perversity.
- Chapter four. Oral Narratives.
- Chapter five. Love’s Substitutions.
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index