Paulina Palmer | Lesbian Gothic | Tracing the growth of lesbian Gothic fiction over the 25 years since the advent of the Women’s Movement and Gay Liberation in the 1970s, this text dis
Elisabeth Ladenson | Proust’s Lesbianism | For decades, Elisabeth Ladenson says, critics have misread or ignored a crucial element in Marcel Proust’s fiction-his representation of lesbians. Her
Gretchen Schultz | Sapphic Fathers | Literature that explored female homosexuality flourished in late nineteenth-century France. Poets, novelists, and pornographers, whether Symbolists, R
Christopher Whyte | Gendering The Nation | Too often seen as a ghost from the past, nationalism has resurfaced as a major factor in European politics and culture. A powerful commitment to natio
David M. Robinson | Closeted Writing And Lesbian And Gay Literature | Arguing for renewed attention to covert same-sex-oriented writing (and to authorial intention more generally), this study explores the representation
Gabriele Griffin | Romancing the Margins? | Explore modern lesbian writing and the critical response it engenders!Central to current debates in lesbian and gender studies have been the role of t
Julie Abraham | Are Girls Necessary? | What do we read as ‘lesbian,’ and why? Have we been looking for love in too few places? In this first full-length study of modern lesbian writing, Jul
Judith Roof | A Lure of Knowledge | Lesbianism in literature has been dealt with rather indirectly in the past. Editors have led readers to the ‘artistry’ of a work containing lesbianism
Paulina Palmer | The Queer Uncanny | The Queer Uncanny investigates the roles played by the concept of the uncanny, as defined by Sigmund Freud and other theorists, in representing lesbia
Paulina Palmer | Contemporary Lesbian Writing | Includes sections titled Theoretical Perspectives, Political Fictions, The Thriller and more. Now retired, Paulina Palmer was a senior lecturer in the