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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

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Romancing the Margins? by Gabriele Griffin

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

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Are Girls Necessary? by Julie Abraham

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

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A Lure of Knowledge by Judith Roof

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

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The Queer Uncanny by Paulina Palmer

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

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Contemporary Lesbian Writing by Paulina Palmer

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