Category: Literary Criticism

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Books & Life by Jan Clausen

Jan Clausen | Books & Life | From Publishers Weekly

In these essays and reviews, Clausen ( The Prosperine Papers ) raises provocative questions–about feminism, lesbianism, ac

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Queer Gothic by George E. Haggerty

George E. Haggerty | Queer Gothic | George Haggerty examines the ways in which gothic fiction centers on loss as the foreclosure of homoerotic possibility and the relationship between tr

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Lesbian Erotics by Karla Jay

Karla Jay | Lesbian Erotics | Synopsis

Essays about eroticism in lesbian life by writers such as Elizabeth Meese, Sandy Huss, Colleen Lamos, Anna Livia, edited by Karla Jay.

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Twilight Tales by Melissa Sky

Melissa Sky | Twilight Tales | Lesbian pulp fiction’s tremendous historical and cultural impact has only recently begun to be fully recognized and until now there has been no compre

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The Lesbian Postmodern by Laura Doan

Laura Doan | The Lesbian Postmodern | Review

As an exploration of the relation between the lesbian, conceived within the context of cutting-edge work on gender theory, and postmodernis

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Lesbian Gothic by Paulina Palmer

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

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Proust’s Lesbianism by Elisabeth Ladenson

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

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Sapphic Fathers by Gretchen Schultz

Gretchen Schultz | Sapphic Fathers | Literature that explored female homosexuality flourished in late nineteenth-century France. Poets, novelists, and pornographers, whether Symbolists, R

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Gendering The Nation by Christopher Whyte

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

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Closeted Writing And Lesbian And Gay Literature by David M. Robinson

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