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 |
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 |
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