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The essays in this volume explore female emotional and social relationships in literary, cinematographic, and artistic contexts. These intimate unions offer a reflection on different historical and cultural milieus as well as the universal human need for friendship.
Sommario
Chapter 1: "Apt for Friendship": the Epistolary Friendships of Mary Ward
Alexandra Verini
Chapter 2: Politics and Pain of Women's Cross-Racial Friendships
Ivy Schweitzer
Chapter 3: Fyrir innan stokk: Friendship, Kinship, and Gendered Space in Medieval Iceland
Natalie M. Van Deusen
Chapter 4: "Chloe likes Olivia": Virginia Woolf's 'Discourse on Method'
Michael Eskin
Chapter 5: Subversive Seeing and Sisterhood in Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Kathleen J. Waites
Chapter 6: Female Relationships in a Traditional Society: Mujeres de sol, mujeres de oro by Natalia Toledo Paz
Ida Day
Chapter 7: In the Shadows of a World Famous Twentieth Century Relationship: The 2020 Resurrection of Simone de Beauvoir's Foundational Female Friendship
Araceli Hernández-Laroche
Chapter 8: "Perfect Little Ladies": Female Friendship and New Womanhood in Rochester, New York, 1893-1914
Anya Jabour
Chapter 9: Protofeminist Friendship in Margherita Sarrocchi's Scanderbeide
Adriana Guarro Romero
Chapter 10: Female Friendship in the Medieval English Romance Ywain and Gawain
Joanne Findon
Chapter 11: Dime con quién andas: The Female Social Networks of Postwar Europe in Julia Navarro's Dime quién soy
Melissa Garr
Chapter 12: A Little Trail through the Silver Age of Russia: Polyxena Solovyova and Natalia Manaseina
Victor Fet
Chapter 13: Echoes of Larger Life: Exploring Victoria Welby's Correspondence, in particular with Mary Everest-Boole
Susan Petrilli
Info autore
Slav N. Gratchev is professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at Marshall University.
Ida Day is associate professor of Spanish at Marshall University.
Larry Sheret is professor and librarian for scholarly communication & open educational resources at Marshall University.
Riassunto
The essays in this volume explore female emotional and social relationships in literary, cinematographic, and artistic contexts. These intimate unions offer a reflection on different historical and cultural milieus as well as the universal human need for friendship.
