Sapphic fathers : discourses of same-sex desire from nineteenth-century France /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schultz, Gretchen, 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Series:University of Toronto romance series.
Subjects:
1800-1899
French literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Lesbianism in literature.
Women in literature.
Littérature française > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Lesbianisme dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gay Studies.
French literature
Lesbianism in literature
Women in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: backstories
  • The poetics of lesbian identification
  • Tribades for sale: popular fiction and backroom books
  • Dystopian Sapphism: anti-feminism, class warfare, and the elite novel at the fin de siècle
  • Scientia sapphica
  • Intertexts and afterlives: from the French canon to U.S. lesbian pulps.

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