Loving subjects : narratives of female desire / [electronic resource]
D'Cruz, Doreen,1950-
New York : P. Lang,
c2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-288) and index.
Deconstructing the father as lover. Deconstructing the father as lover: the fiction of Antonia White -- Motherhood and desire. A mythology of absence-and beyond -- A tattered female genealogy: Rosamond Lehmann's The ballad and the source -- The liquid alterity of the maternal-feminine in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Lesbian sexuality. Seeking the unrepresented: women desiring women -- Miming the masculine: Radclyffe Hall's The well of loneliness -- The feminization of female homosexuality: Isabel Miller's Patience and Sarah -- Recovering an archaic innocence: Jeanette Winterson's Oranges are not the only fruit -- Single women and disruptive desires. The subversive potential of the single woman -- The refiguration of passion: the spinster's plot in Anita Brookner's early fiction -- Desire without a transcendent object: Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping -- A nuptial quest. A nuptial quest: Luce Irigaray's Elemental passions.
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English fiction
Women and literature
American fiction
American fiction
English fiction
Psychological fiction
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Desire in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Love in literature.
English fiction
Love in literature
Women and literature
American fiction
American fiction
English fiction
Psychological fiction
Psychoanalysis and literature
Desire in literature
English
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