Sapphic Fathers
Discourses of Same-Sex Desire from Nineteenth-Century France
Gretchen Schultz
Tracing this phenomenon through poetry (Baudelaire, Verlaine), erotica and the popular novel (Belot), and literary fiction (Zola, Maupassant, Péladan, Mendès), and into scientific treatises, Schultz demonstrates that the literary discourse on lesbianism became the basis for the scientific and medical understanding of female same-sex desire in France. She also shows that the cumulative impact of this discourse left tangible traces that lasted well beyond nineteenth-century France, persisting into twentieth-century America to become the basis of lesbian pulp fiction after the Second World War.
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Details
ISBN | 9781442646728 |
Genre | Literary Criticism; Literary History |
Copyright Date | 2015 |
Publication Date | 19-Dec-14 |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Format | Hardcover |
No. of Pages | 320 |
Language | English |
Rating | NotRated |
Paper Type | Electronic Format Available |
BookID | 10998 |