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OverviewLiterature 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, Pladan, Mends), 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gretchen SchultzPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.630kg ISBN: 9781442646728ISBN 10: 1442646721 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 19 December 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Backstories 1. The Poetics of Lesbian Identification 2. Tribades for Sale: Popular Fiction and Backroom Books 3. Dystopian Sapphism: Anti-Feminism, Class Warfare, and the Elite Novel at the Fin du Siècle 4. Scientia sapphica 5. Intertexts and Afterlives: From the French Canon to US Pulp Fiction Works Cited IndexReviewsA significant scholarly achievement. Readers whose primary interest is in cultural or intellectual history have a lot to gain from this research. - Peter Cryle, Emeritus Professor, Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland Sapphic Fathers analyses a vast array of literature on lesbianism written by male authors in nineteenth-century France, and whose influence can be traced into American culture and especially pulp fiction. A serious and well-documented account. -- Laure Murat, Department of French and Francophone Studies, University of California, Los Angeles Gretchen Schultz presents a unique and novel perspective on an important topic. The final chapter is a tour de force of literary history and criticism. -- Melanie C. Hawthorne, Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures, Texas A&M University A significant scholarly achievement. Readers whose primary interest is in cultural or intellectual history have a lot to gain from this research. -- Peter Cryle, Emeritus Professor, Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland Author InformationGretchen Schultz is a professor in the Department of French Studies at Brown University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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