Sapphic Fathers - Discourses of Same-Sex Desire From Nineteenth-Century France

Informationen zum Autor By Gretchen Schultz Klappentext Gretchen Schultz explores how male writers and their readers in late nineteenth-century France took lesbianism as a cipher for apprehensions about sex and gender during a time of social and political upheaval.  Zusammenfassung Gretchen Schultz explores how male writers and their readers in late nineteenth-century France took lesbianism as a cipher for apprehensions about sex and gender during a time of social and political upheaval. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Backstories 1. The Poetics of Lesbian Identification 2. Tribades for Sale: Popular Fiction and Backroom Books 3. Dystopian Sapphism: Anti-Feminism, Class Warfare, and the Elite Novel at the Fin du Siècle 4. Scientia sapphica 5. Intertexts and Afterlives: From the French Canon to US Pulp Fiction Works Cited  Index

Product details

• Authors: Gretchen Schultz
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.12.2014
• EAN: 9781442646728
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4672-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: University of Toronto Romance Series; University of Toronto Romance Series; University of Toronto Romance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories