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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... felt so alien from the whole kindly , law - abiding house ; I felt like a pariah , and his mother's tolerance only increased my shame ; she didn't push me away , but put both her arms round me and said that nothing I could do was wrong ...
... felt so alien from the whole kindly , law - abiding house ; I felt like a pariah , and his mother's tolerance only increased my shame ; she didn't push me away , but put both her arms round me and said that nothing I could do was wrong ...
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... felt quite certain , only that I had it by me , that something frightful would have made its appearance , and ... felt the same lassitude , and a languor weighed upon me all day . I felt myself a changed girl . A strange melancholy was ...
... felt quite certain , only that I had it by me , that something frightful would have made its appearance , and ... felt the same lassitude , and a languor weighed upon me all day . I felt myself a changed girl . A strange melancholy was ...
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... felt that the lesbian - feminist move- ment and the literature connected to it provided little place for them . They believed that the white , middle - class - dominated lesbian - feminist movement had imported the racism of the parent ...
... felt that the lesbian - feminist move- ment and the literature connected to it provided little place for them . They believed that the white , middle - class - dominated lesbian - feminist movement had imported the racism of the parent ...
Contents
MENS WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP | 9 |
WOMENS WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP | 17 |
Aphra Behn | 24 |
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