{"product_id":"same-sex-love-and-the-english-literary-imagination","title":"Same - Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Ruth Vanita\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Pearson Longman\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2007\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 289\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8131708330\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Percy Shelley and Jane Austen to Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woold, Ruth Vanita uncovers layers of love between women in a sophisticated and provocative rereading of English literature. She demonstrates that love between women has long formed an enriching and enabling component of both male and female writing. Synthesizing centuries of literature, criticism and mythology, Vanita shifts the critical focus from marginalization of women to their empowerment as literary ancestors. She delineates the formation of alternative families in Meredith, Forster and Vikram Seth, refuting conventional theories of the invisibility of the ‘queer’. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInvestigating the hidden ‘Protestant bias’ and male bias that have led thinkers such as Freud and Foucalt to disregard Sapphic presence in Western culture from the medieval period onwards, Vanita challenges many theoretical and cultural assumptions regarding gay and lesbian studies. Her historically rooted approach makes this volume a must for any reader interested in the play of gender and sexuality in the nineteenth–and twentieth-century English literature, especially the students and scholars of queer, literary and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: \u003cbr\u003eImagined Ancestries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Marian Model\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Sapphic Sublime and Romantic Lyricism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEcstasy in Victorian Aestheticism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnarchist Feminism and the Homoerotic: \u003cbr\u003eWilde, Carpenter, Shelley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe search for a \"Likeness\": \u003cbr\u003eShakespeare to Michael Field\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSapphic Virgins: Mythmaking Around Love\u003cbr\u003eBetween Women in Meredith, Forster, Hope Mirrlees\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBiography as Homoerotic Fiction: \u003cbr\u003eFreud, Pater, and Woolf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Wilde-ness of Woolf:\u003cbr\u003eEvading and embracing death in Orlando \u003cbr\u003eand The Waves\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDogs, Phoenixes, and Other Beasts:\u003cbr\u003eNonhuman Creatures in Homoerotic Texts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Ruth Vanita \/ Pearson Longman \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153535136112,"sku":"23520","price":38.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/23520.jpg?v=1793910810","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/same-sex-love-and-the-english-literary-imagination","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}