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Title: INSEPARABLE
DESIRE BETWEEN WOMEN IN LITERATURE
By: Emma Donoghue
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £7.99


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ISBN 10: 1447248163
ISBN 13: 9781447248163
Publisher: PAN MACMILLAN
Pub. date: 5 December, 2013
Pages: 256
Description: From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Room, a book that explores the little-known literary tradition of love between women in Western literature.
Synopsis: Love between women crops up throughout literature: from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Charlotte Bronte, Dickens, Agatha Christie, and many more. In Inseparable Emma Donoghue examines how desire between women in literature has been portrayed, from schoolgirls and vampires to runaway wives, from cross-dressing knights to contemporary murder stories. Donoghue looks at the work of those writers who have addressed the `unspeakable subject', examining whether such desire between women is freakish or omnipresent, holy or evil, heart-warming or ridiculous as she excavates a long-obscured tradition of female friendship, one that is surprisingly central to our cultural history. A revelation of a centuries-old literary tradition - brilliant, amusing, and until now, deliberately overlooked.
Reader Age: From 18 years
Publication: UK
Imprint: Picador
Returns: Non-returnable
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