Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-288) and index.
Contents:
Deconstructing the father as lover. Deconstructing the father as lover: the fiction of Antonia White -- Motherhood and desire. A mythology of absence-and beyond -- A tattered female genealogy: Rosamond Lehmann's The ballad and the source -- The liquid alterity of the maternal-feminine in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Lesbian sexuality. Seeking the unrepresented: women desiring women -- Miming the masculine: Radclyffe Hall's The well of loneliness -- The feminization of female homosexuality: Isabel Miller's Patience and Sarah -- Recovering an archaic innocence: Jeanette Winterson's Oranges are not the only fruit -- Single women and disruptive desires. The subversive potential of the single woman -- The refiguration of passion: the spinster's plot in Anita Brookner's early fiction -- Desire without a transcendent object: Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping -- A nuptial quest. A nuptial quest: Luce Irigaray's Elemental passions.
Series:
American university studies. IV, English language and literature ; vol. 195
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