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Impossible women : lesbian figures & American literature

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...
Print Book, English, 2000
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2000
History
191 pages ; 22 cm.
9780801437281, 9780801486388, 0801437288, 0801486386
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1. The romance of the real : The Blithdale romance and The Bostonians
2. The reproduction of meaning : language, oedipality, and The Awakening
3. Modernist perversity : the repetition of desire in The Sun also rises
4. Oral narratives : "race" and sexuality in Their eyes were watching God
5. Love's substitutions : Elizabeth Bishop and the lie of language