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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... writing and gay male writing would detract from the clear illustration of the lines of development . It is my hope that other scholars will soon compile anthologies , which could be read as companions to this volume , that trace the ...
... writing and gay male writing would detract from the clear illustration of the lines of development . It is my hope that other scholars will soon compile anthologies , which could be read as companions to this volume , that trace the ...
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... writers were modernists , for instance , and experimented with form might tempt a critic to suggest that lesbian writing is often nonlinear . But those modernist lesbian writers also had contemporaries who wrote lesbian literature in ...
... writers were modernists , for instance , and experimented with form might tempt a critic to suggest that lesbian writing is often nonlinear . But those modernist lesbian writers also had contemporaries who wrote lesbian literature in ...
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... writing it in 1903 ) was it under- stood by the more astute that much of her writing was specifically lesbian . The critic Edmund Wilson , for example , pointed out that Stein's post - 1903 vagueness , such as her lack of distinct ...
... writing it in 1903 ) was it under- stood by the more astute that much of her writing was specifically lesbian . The critic Edmund Wilson , for example , pointed out that Stein's post - 1903 vagueness , such as her lack of distinct ...
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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