Making girls into women [electronic resource] : American women's writing and the rise of lesbian identity / Kathryn R. Kent.
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TextSeries: e-Duke books scholarly collection | Series QPublication details: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003.Description: xi, 355 pISBN: - 9780822384571
- Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 -- Criticism and interpretation
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Lesbians in literature
- American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Lesbians' writings, American -- History and criticism
- Women in literature
- Girls in literature
- PS228.L47 K46 2003
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-344) and index.
"Single white female": the sexual politics of spinsterhood in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Oldtown folks -- "Trying all kinds": Louisa May Alcott's pedagogic erotics -- "Scouting for girls": reading and recruitment in the early twentieth century -- "Excreate a no sense": the erotic currency of Gertrude Stein's Tender buttons -- The M multiplying: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop and the pleasure of influence, part I -- Influence and invitation: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and the pleasures of influence, part 2.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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