The Apparitional Lesbian Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture |
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| Author:
| Castle, Terry |
| Series title: | Gender and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-07653-1 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1995 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $38.00 |
Book Description:
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In 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.
In 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.