Romantic Friendship in Victorian LiteratureAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 - 168 páginas Carolyn Oulton recovers the strategies nineteenth-century authors used to justify the ideal of same-sex romantic friendship and the anxieties these strategies reveal. By considering both male and female friendships, she uncovers surprising parallels between them in novels and poetry. |
Índice
A Kind of Enchantment | 1 |
The Problem of Male Friendship | 33 |
The Ends of Female Friendship | 71 |
Romantic Friendship and the Satirists | 107 |
Crises at the Fin de Siècle | 129 |
Conclusion | 153 |
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Romantic Friendship in Victorian Literature Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton Pré-visualização limitada - 2016 |
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