Challenging the script of the heterosexual couple: three marriage novels by May Sinclair.

From: Papers on Language & Literature | Date: September 22, 1993| Author: Harris, Janice H. | Copyright information

May Sinclair's modernist marriage novels introduced a sexual element that was suppressed or absent in novels by male authors. All modernist authors resisted the conventional separation of love and quest in husbands and most tried to free heroines from the muffling caused by marriage. However, Sinclair also explored female sexuality and sexual symmetries within and outside of heterosexual relationships. She gave her heroines an eroticism that did not oppose traditional heterosexuality but allo...

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