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Desire Between Women in Literature
by Emma Donoghue
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appears in Lesbian, History, and Fiction.
Emma Donoghue examines how desire between women in English literature has been portrayed, from schoolgirls and vampires to runaway wives, from crossdressing knights to contemporary murder stories. She looks at the work of those writers who have addressed the "unspeakable subject," examining whether samesex desire is freakish or omnipresent, holy ...
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appears in Lesbian, History, and Fiction.
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“Sharp, intimate prose and a confined Paris setting produce a small, intense novel that tracks a young man's struggle between desire and social expectation. Its useful part is the sustained, inward pressure: long passages of reflection that make moral hesitation feel palpable and the prose often luminous. The main limitation is narrow scope—the plot is compact and frequently inward, so secondary figures stay sketchy and the mood can feel claustrophobic; readers seeking momentum or wider context may find it slow.”
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