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Sapphic Fathers - Discourses of Same-Sex Desire from Nineteenth-Century France (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,306
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Sapphic Fathers - Discourses of Same-Sex Desire from Nineteenth-Century France (Hardcover): Gretchen Schultz

Sapphic Fathers - Discourses of Same-Sex Desire from Nineteenth-Century France (Hardcover)

Gretchen Schultz

Series: University of Toronto Romance Series

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Literature that explored female homosexuality flourished in late nineteenth-century France. Poets, novelists, and pornographers, whether Symbolists, Realists, or Decadents, were all part of this literary moment. In Sapphic Fathers, Gretchen Schultz explores how these male writers and their readers took lesbianism as a cipher for apprehensions about sex and gender during a time of social and political upheaval.

Tracing this phenomenon through poetry (Baudelaire, Verlaine), erotica and the popular novel (Belot), and literary fiction (Zola, Maupassant, Peladan, Mendes), 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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Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of origin: Canada
Series: University of Toronto Romance Series
Release date: December 2014
First published: 2014
Authors: Gretchen Schultz
Dimensions: 235 x 161 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-1-4426-4672-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > Lesbian studies
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LSN: 1-4426-4672-1
Barcode: 9781442646728

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