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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Romantic Friendship"”.
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More than Gal Pals: Female Romantic Friendships in Northanger Abbey
… Catherine Morland and her female companions as romantic friendships characterized by emotional and potentially sexual intimacy. Ultimately, I argue that the romantic friendship between Catherine Morland and Eleanor Tilney provides clear guidelines for the appropriate behavior in same-sex …
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Making Something Out of Nothing: Asexuality and Narrative
… Oscar Wilde's attempted substitution of asexual romantic friendship for homoeroticism in his 1891 revisions to The Picture of Dorian Gray. After discussing asexuality's incompatibility with models of narrative predicated on desire, I build on Judith Roof's critique of "heteronarrative" and argue …
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DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS A Comparative Analysis of Representations of Male Queerness and Male-Male Intimacy in the Films of Europe and America, 1912-1934
… period. It has also been possible to re-examine friendships or relationships on film that were previously regarded as having a homosexual subtext and, instead, demonstrate that these were actually representations of the “romantic friendship” popular in the late nineteenth century in America or …
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The Womb in The Waste Land: Abortion as Social Failure in “A Game of Chess” * Another Radical Feminism: In Defense of the Woman-Mother *Love in the Convent: Female Friendship and the Failure of Marriage in The History of the Nun
… man needs” (285).|LOVE IN THE CONVENT: FEMALE FRIENDSHIP AND THE FAILURE OF MARRIAGE IN THE HISTORY OF THE NUN interprets the novella by examining Aphra Behn’s treatment of women’s options regarding marriage, the benefits of an alternative conventual life, the risks in heterosexual love, and …