Desiring women : the partnership of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West /

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"On 23 September 1925, Virginia Woolf wrote to Vita Sackville-West: 'If you'll make me up, I'll make you.' In Desiring Women, Karyn Sproles argues that the two writers in fact 'made' each other. Woolf and Sackville-West produced some of the most vibrant and acclaim...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sproles, Karyn Z.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941 > Relations with women.
Sackville-West, V. > (Victoria), > 1892-1962 > Relations with women.
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941 > Relations avec les femmes.
Sackville West, V. > (Victoria), > 1892-1962 > Relations avec les femmes.
Sackville-West, V. > (Victoria), > 1892-1962
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941
Woolf, Virginia.
Sackville-West, Vita.
1900-1999
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Lesbians' writings, English > History and criticism.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Homosexuality and literature > England.
Littérature anglaise > Écrits de femmes > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Homosexualité et littérature > Angleterre.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
HISTORY > Women.
English literature
English literature > Women authors
Homosexuality and literature
Lesbians' writings, English
Relations with women
Lesbiennes.
Feminisme.
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Desiring women.
  • Forbidden knowledge: Vita Sackville-West's secret fruit.
  • Making use of the fruit: Vita Sackville-West's influence on Virginia Woolf.
  • Orlando: a biography of desire.
  • Genre instability and Orlando: biography as a feminist practice.
  • Making up women: revolutions in biography.
  • Love letters and feminine sexuality.
  • Subverted subjects.
  • Appendix A: A chronology of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West's relationship.
  • Appendix B: A chronology of Virginia Woolf's and Vita Sackville-West's publications.
  • Appendix C: A selected chronological bibliography of Virginia Woolf and sexuality, 1972-99.

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