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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 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. French, Literary Theory & Criticism, Sapphic Fathers~~ Gretchen Schultz~~French~~Literary Theory & Criticism~~9781442666405, en, Sapphic Fathers, Gretchen Schultz, 9781442666405, University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 01/15/2015, , , , University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 01/15/2015<

ISBN: 9781442666405

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. 9781442646728,9781442666405,1442646721,1442666404 Other pricing structure might be available at vitalsource.com., University of Toronto Press<

ISBN: 9781442666405

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 a… Mehr…

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.  Social Science Social Science eBook, University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division<

ISBN: 9781442666405

Sapphic Fathers: Discourses of Same-Sex Desire from Nineteenth-Century France Sapphic-Fathers~~Gretchen-Schultz Literature>Literature>Lit Companions NOOK Book (eBook), University of Toron… Mehr…

Sapphic Fathers: Discourses of Same-Sex Desire from Nineteenth-Century France Sapphic-Fathers~~Gretchen-Schultz Literature>Literature>Lit Companions NOOK Book (eBook), University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division<

2015, ISBN: 9781442666405

Discourses of Same-Sex Desire from Nineteenth-Century France, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division], University of Toronto Press,… Mehr…

Discourses of Same-Sex Desire from Nineteenth-Century France, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division], University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 2015<