Making Girls into Women : American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity /

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Explores the links between the emergence of lesbian and proto-lesbian identities at the turn of the century and the discourses of sentimentality, mass culture, and modernism.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kent, Kathryn R., 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Stein, Gertrude, > 1874-1946.
Moore, Marianne, > 1887-1972.
Bishop, Elizabeth, > 1911-1979.
Alcott, Louisa May, > 1832-1888.
Bishop, Elizabeth, > 1911-1979 > Criticism and interpretation.
Moore, Marianne, > 1887-1972 > Criticism and interpretation.
Stein, Gertrude, > 1874-1946 > Criticism and interpretation.
Alcott, Louisa May, > 1832-1888 > Criticism and interpretation.
Women in literature.
Lesbians' writings, American.
Lesbians in literature.
Girls in literature.
American literature > Women authors.
American literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Filles dans la litterature.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Écrits de femmes americains > Histoire et critique.
Lesbiennes dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Themes, motifs.
Femmes et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Lesbianisme et litterature.
Lesbianisme dans la litterature.
Écrits de lesbiennes americains > Histoire et critique.
Daughters in literature.
Lesbian heroines in literature.
American literature > 20th century > Themes, motives.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Lesbianism in literature.
Lesbians' writings, American > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Single white female": the sexual politics of spinsterhood in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Oldtown folks
  • "Trying all kinds": Louisa May Alcott's pedagogic erotics
  • "Scouting for girls": reading and recruitment in the early twentieth century
  • "Excreate a no sense": the erotic currency of Gertrude Stein's Tender buttons
  • The M multiplying: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop and the pleasure of influence, part I
  • Influence and invitation: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and the pleasures of influence, part 2.

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