1996, ISBN: 9780231105514

New York, Columbia University Press, VIII, 289 p. Paperback. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical … Mehr…

New York, Columbia University Press, VIII, 289 p. Paperback. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Ein tadelloses Exemplar / an excellent copy. - In Sappho and the Virgin Mary Ruth Vanita engages these two central icons of Western cultural mythology to rethink the concept of literary ancestry. Uncovering layers of love between women in works by male and female authors from the Romantic to the postcolonial, she demonstrates that lesbian connections have long animated the Western literary imagination. Tracing threads of a nurturing, leminized ungendering from Shelley and Austen through Wilde and Woolf, discovering the dissolution of patriarchal families and the emergence of alternative families in Forster and Vikram Seth, Vanita offers a provocative new vision of the literary family tree. Sappho and the Virgin Mary also reveals how gender segregation in mainstream criticism has effectively excluded the notion of Sapphic ancestry in Western literature. In her graceful synthesis of centuries of literature, criticism, and cultural mythology, Vanita emphasizes agency rather than victimization?decisively shifting the critical focus away from dominant views of women s marginalization in English literature. / Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Imagined Ancestries 1 The Marian Model 2 The Sapphic Sublime and Romantic Lyricism 3 Ecstasy in Victorian Aestheticism 4 Anarchist Feminism and the Homoerotic: Wilde, Carpenter, Shelley 5 The Search for a "Likeness": Shakespeare to Michael Field 6 Sapphic Virgins: Mythmaking Around Love Between Women in Meredith, Forster, Hope Mirrlees 7 Biography as Homoerotic Fiction: Freud, Pater, and Woolf 8 The Wilde-ness of Woolf: Evading and Embracing Death in Orlando and The Waves 9 Dogs, Phoenixes, and Other Beasts: Nonhuman Creatures in Homoerotic Texts. ISBN 9780231105514Literaturwissenschaft 1996, [PU: Columbia University Press]<

ISBN: 9780231105514

In this book, Vanita engages these two central icons of Western cultural mythology to rethink the concept of literary ancestry. Uncovering layers of love between women in works by male an… Mehr…

In this book, Vanita engages these two central icons of Western cultural mythology to rethink the concept of literary ancestry. Uncovering layers of love between women in works by male and female authors from the Romantic to the postcolonial, she demonstrates that lesbian connections have long animated the Western literary imagination. Media > Book, [PU: Columbia University Press]<

ISBN: 9780231105514

UsedGood. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine m… Mehr…

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