Polymorphous Domesticities : Pets, Bodies, and Desire in Four Modern Writers
Polymorphous Domesticities maps out the play of gender, sexuality, and alternative forms of domesticity in the works of four modern European and American writers--Edith Wharton, Djuna Barnes, Colette, and J.R. Ackerley. What these four writers have in common is a defiance of patriarchal paradigms in...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2012.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Re-Visions of Diana in Edith Wharton; 2. Colette at Home; 3. Romancing the Beast: J.R. Ackerley's Dog Days and the Meaning of Sex; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography.