Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature

By: Emma Donoghue

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Synopsis: Love between women crops up throughout literature: from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Agatha Christie, and many more. In Inseparable Emma Donoghue examines how desire between women in literature has been portrayed, from schoolgirls and vampires to runaway wives, from cross-dressing knights to contemporary murder stories. Donoghue looks at the work of those writers who have addressed the ‘unspeakable subject’, examining whether such desire between women is freakish or omnipresent, holy or evil, heart-warming or ridiculous as she excavates a long-obscured tradition of female friendship, one that is surprisingly central to our cultural history. A revelation of a centuries-old literary tradition – brilliant, amusing, and until now, deliberately overlooked.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781447248163
Related ISBNs:: 9781447248170
Publisher:: Pan Macmillan
Date of Addition:: 03/27/19
Copyrighted By:: Emma Donoghue
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Literature and Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Language Arts
Reading Age:: 18 and up
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.

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