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Author:

D'Cruz, Doreen, 1950-

Title:

Loving subjects : narratives of female desire / Doreen D'Cruz.

Publisher:

P. Lang,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

x, 295 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Psychological fiction--History and criticism.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Desire in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Love in literature.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780820458021 (alk. paper)
0820458023 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)48450990

LCCN:

2001050660

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)