Category: Literary Criticism

Posted in Film and Television Literary Criticism

Sapphism on Screen by Lucille Cairns

Lucille Cairns | Sapphism on Screen | Looking for something intellectual that will challenge your focus and intelligence? Sapphism on Screen is a study of lesbian desire in French and Fran

Posted in Literary Criticism

Passionate Communities by Marilyn R. Schuster

Marilyn R. Schuster | Passionate Communities | In this new full-length study of Jane Rule’s life and work, Marilyn Schuster argues that Rule’s novels provide a way of ‘writing and reading lesbian’

Posted in Literary Criticism

Lesbiana by Barbara Grier

Barbara Grier | Lesbiana | Includes all of Barbara Grier’s book reviews that appeared in the ‘Lesbiana’ section of the Ladder

Posted in LGBT Studies/Social Sciences Literary Criticism

New Lesbian Criticism by Sally Munt

Sally Munt | New Lesbian Criticism | This volume explores whether there can be a specific lesbian aesthetic, juxtaposed against reading as a ‘woman’ or as a ‘heterosexual’. Contributors b

Posted in Anthology - Nonfiction Literary Criticism

Sisters, Sexperts, Queers by Arlene Stein

Arlene Stein | Sisters, Sexperts, Queers | This collection of essays illustrates both the vitality and the variety within the lesbian community, with topics such as the politics of butch-femme

Posted in Literary Criticism Non-Fiction

The Sappho History by Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds | The Sappho History | The Sappho History traces the story of the reception of Sappho’s poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the Romantic period to the presen

Posted in Literary Criticism Literary History

Lesbian Panic by Patricia Juliana Smith

Patricia Juliana Smith | Lesbian Panic | For Smith, ‘lesbian panic’ is often a fear of losing one’s identity and value within the heterosexual paradigm. This book traces the history of ‘lesbi

Posted in Canadian Eh Literary Criticism

Lesbian Images by Jane Rule

Jane Rule | Lesbian Images | The author’s attitude toward lesbian experience as measured against images by other women writers, such as Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, and May Sarto

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Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho by Jane McIntosh Snyder

Jane McIntosh Snyder | Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho | This is the first book to examine Sappho’s poetry through the lens of lesbian desire. Snyder provides close readings of the surviving examples of Sapp

Posted in Literary Criticism Literary History

Sappho is Burning by Page DuBois

Page DuBois | Sappho is Burning | To know all we know about Sappho is to know little. Her poetry, dating from the seventh century B.C.E., comes to us in fragments, her biography as spe