ISBN: 9781442646728

Literature that explored female homosexuality flourished in late nineteenth-century France. Poets, novelists, and pornographers, whether Symbolists, Realists, or Decadents, were all part … Mehr…

Literature that explored female homosexuality flourished in late nineteenth-century France. Poets, novelists, and pornographers, whether Symbolists, Realists, or Decadents, were all part of this literary moment. In Sapphic Fathers, Gretchen Schultz explores how these male writers and their readers took lesbianism as a cipher for apprehensions about sex and gender during a time of social and political upheaval. Tracing this phenomenon through poetry (Baudelaire, Verlaine), erotica and the popular novel (Belot), and literary fiction (Zola, Maupassant, Péladan, Mendès), and into scientific treatises, Schultz demonstrates that the literary discourse on lesbianism became the basis for the scientific and medical understanding of female same-sex desire in France. She also shows that the cumulative impact of this discourse left tangible traces that lasted well beyond nineteenth-century France, persisting into twentieth-century America to become the basis of lesbian pulp fiction after the Second World War. Books<

ISBN: 9781442646728

Hardback, [PU: University of Toronto Press], Gretchen Schultz explores how male writers and their readers in late nineteenth-century France took lesbianism as a cipher for apprehensions a… Mehr…

Hardback, [PU: University of Toronto Press], Gretchen Schultz explores how male writers and their readers in late nineteenth-century France took lesbianism as a cipher for apprehensions about sex and gender during a time of social and political upheaval., Literary Studies: General, Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900, Gender Studies, Gender Groups, Lesbian Studies, Gay Studies (Gay Men), Sociology: Family & Relationships<

ISBN: 9781442646728

Hardback, [PU: University of Toronto Press], Gretchen Schultz explores how male writers and their readers in late nineteenth-century France took lesbianism as a cipher for apprehensions a… Mehr…

Hardback, [PU: University of Toronto Press], Gretchen Schultz explores how male writers and their readers in late nineteenth-century France took lesbianism as a cipher for apprehensions about sex and gender during a time of social and political upheaval., Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900<

ISBN: 9781442646728

Gretchen Schultz explores how male writers and their readers in late nineteenth-century France took lesbianism as a cipher for apprehensions about sex and gender ... Books

2014, ISBN: 9781442646728

Discourses of Same-Sex Desire from Nineteenth-Century France, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: University of Toronto Press], University of Toronto Press, 2014