Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the PresentLillian Faderman Lesbian and bisexual literature over the past four centuries, tracing the evolution of the genre from romantic friendship, through the exotic and evil, to the explicitly sexual. An example of exotic and evil is provided by Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 vampire novella, Carmilla. By the author of Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers. |
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... novel by her . It was more than ten years , however , before Hall produced her first novels . In 1924 she pub- lished The Forge and The Unlit Lamp . The Forge , a comic novel , barely hints at lesbianism in the guise of a married ...
... novel by her . It was more than ten years , however , before Hall produced her first novels . In 1924 she pub- lished The Forge and The Unlit Lamp . The Forge , a comic novel , barely hints at lesbianism in the guise of a married ...
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... novel , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter ( 1940 ) , at the age of twenty - three , she was touted by Houghton Mifflin's publicists and taken into the public heart as a Wunderkind , whose body language and predilection for men's pants and ...
... novel , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter ( 1940 ) , at the age of twenty - three , she was touted by Houghton Mifflin's publicists and taken into the public heart as a Wunderkind , whose body language and predilection for men's pants and ...
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... novel with a lesbian sleuth , she again presents what appears to be realistic , and then destabilizes it by the unexpected . Unlike the usual detective novel , lesbian or otherwise , although the mystery is solved , there is no closure ...
... novel with a lesbian sleuth , she again presents what appears to be realistic , and then destabilizes it by the unexpected . Unlike the usual detective novel , lesbian or otherwise , although the mystery is solved , there is no closure ...
Contents
MENS WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP | 9 |
WOMENS WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP | 17 |
To My Excellent Lucasia on Our Friendship | 23 |
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