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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... Renée Vivien . The Baroness's volume on Cy- press , which appeared the year after Songs of Bilitis was translated into German , abounds with images of exotic lesbian beauty as well as those of lesbians marked by sinful kisses that glow ...
... Renée Vivien . The Baroness's volume on Cy- press , which appeared the year after Songs of Bilitis was translated into German , abounds with images of exotic lesbian beauty as well as those of lesbians marked by sinful kisses that glow ...
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... Renée Vivien ( Pauline Tarn ) ( 1877-1909 ) Pauline Tarn , an Anglo - American , took the name Renée Vivien ( which sug- gests rebirth and life ) when she decided , after an unhappy youth in London , to return to France , where she had ...
... Renée Vivien ( Pauline Tarn ) ( 1877-1909 ) Pauline Tarn , an Anglo - American , took the name Renée Vivien ( which sug- gests rebirth and life ) when she decided , after an unhappy youth in London , to return to France , where she had ...
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... Vivien was daring as a woman poet in even broaching her subject matter , and that it would be unreasonable to expect stylistic originality of her as well . Vivien learned from her male predecessors to ... RENÉE VIVIEN ( PAULINE TARN ) 369.
... Vivien was daring as a woman poet in even broaching her subject matter , and that it would be unreasonable to expect stylistic originality of her as well . Vivien learned from her male predecessors to ... RENÉE VIVIEN ( PAULINE TARN ) 369.
Contents
Y Jean Jacques Rousseau | 12 |
Katherine Fowler Philips | 17 |
To My Excellent Lucasia on Our Friendship | 23 |
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