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
Literary Criticism
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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