Are Girls Necessary?: Lesbian Writing and Modern Histories

by Julie Abraham

Overview

In this analysis of 20th century lesbian writing, Julie Abraham offers new readings of pulp novelists alongside high modernists - authors as various as Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, Mary Renault, and Virginia Woolf - to examine how these writers created new lesbian narratives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780816656769
Publisher:	University of Minnesota Press
Publication date:	12/03/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Julie Abraham is professor of LGBT Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and author of Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities (Minnesota, 2008).

Table of Contents

Preface: "Are Girls Necessary?" xi

Introduction: "I Have a Narrative" 1

Part I "Tell the Lacadaemonians"

1 Willa Cather's New World Histories 41

2 Mary Renault's Greek Drama 61

Part II "Love Is Writing"

3 Washington, James, (Toklas), and Stein 81

4 Djuna Barnes, Memory, and Forgetting 121

5 Virginia Woolf and the Sexual Histories of Literature 139

Afterword: "Reading and the Experiences of Everyday Life" 169

Notes 173

Index 207