The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern CultureIn essays on literary images of lesbianism from Defoe and Diderot to Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes, on the homosexual reputation of Marie Antoinette, on the lesbian writings of Anne Lister, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Janet Flanner, and on Henry James's The Bostonians, Castle shows how a lesbian presence can be identified in the literature, history, and culture of the past three centuries. |
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THE APPARITIONAL LESBIAN: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture
User Review - KirkusLively essays (some previously published in the Kenyon Review, etc.) on the representation of lesbians in literature and history. Readers acquainted with gay history will be on familiar ground here ... Read full review
The apparitional lesbian: female homosexuality and modern culture
User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictWith the recent explosion in the number of gay and lesbian fiction titles, it should come as no surprise that next would follow a spate of similar studies from academia. Here is yet another. Castle ... Read full review
Contents
A Polemical Introduction or The Ghost of Greta Garbo | 1 |
First Ed | 21 |
The Apparitional Lesbian | 28 |
Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Counterplot of Lesbian Fiction | 66 |
The Diaries of Anne Lister | 92 |
Marie Antoinette Obsession | 107 |
Haunted by Olive Chancellor | 150 |
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The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture Terry Castle No preview available - 1993 |