Title Making girls into women : American women's writing and the rise of lesbian identity / Kathryn R. Kent

Published Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 355 pages) Series Series Q Series Q. 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-344) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 -- Criticism and interpretation Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 fast Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 fast Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 fast Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 fast Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Lesbians in literature. American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Lesbians' writings, American -- History and criticism Women in literature. Girls in literature. Lesbianism in literature. Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century American literature -- 20th century -- Themes, motives Lesbian heroines in literature. Daughters in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Women and literature Lesbianism in literature Lesbian heroines in literature Daughters in literature American literature -- Themes, motives American literature American literature -- Women authors Girls in literature Lesbians in literature Lesbians' writings, American Women in literature United States Genre/Form History Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822384571 0822384574 1282920588 9781282920583 9786612920585 6612920580

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