Love between women crops up throughout literature: from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Charlotte Bronte, Dickens, Agatha Christie, and many more. In Inseparable Emma Donoghue examines how desire between women in literature has been portrayed, from schoolgirls and vampires to runaway wives, from cross-dressing knights to contemporary murder stories. Donoghue looks at the work of those writers who have addressed the 'unspeakable subject', examining whether such desire between women is freakish or omnipresent, holy or evil, heart-warming or ridiculous as she excavates a long-obscured tradition of female friendship, one that is surprisingly central to our cultural history. A revelation of a centuries-old literary tradition - brilliant, amusing, and until now, deliberately overlooked.
- ISBN10 157344717X
- ISBN13 9781573447171
- Publish Date 20 October 2011 (first published 1 January 2010)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 10 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cleis Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 276
- Language English