Category: Literary Criticism

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Lesbian Scandal And The Culture Of Modernism by Jodie Medd

Jodie Medd | Lesbian Scandal And The Culture Of Modernism | ‘Before lesbianism became a specific identity category in the West, its mere suggestion functioned as a powerful source of scandal in early twentieth-

Posted in Film and Television Literary Criticism

Insane Passions by Christine E. Coffman

Christine E. Coffman | Insane Passions | In France in 1933, two sisters, presumed to be lovers, murdered the women who employed them as maids. Known as ‘the Papin affair,’ the incident inspir

Posted in Literary Criticism Literary History

Dangerous Intimacies by Lisa L. Moore

Lisa L. Moore | Dangerous Intimacies | Refuting commonly held beliefs within womenrs’s and lesbian history, feminist theory, and histories of the novel,Dangerous Intimacieschallenges the id

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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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Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives by Marilyn R. Farwell

Marilyn R. Farwell | Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives | What is lesbian literature? Must it contain overtly lesbian characters, and portray them in a positive light? Must the author be overtly (or covertly)

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Beyond Sex And Romance? by Elaine Hutton

Elaine Hutton | Beyond Sex And Romance? | For almost three decades, a wide range of lesbian fiction has been published regularly and in quantity. So what effect has this writing had on the soc

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Sappho of Lesbos by Margaret Goldsmith

Margaret Goldsmith | Sappho of Lesbos | A psychological biography of Sappho of Lesbos written by a layman for laymen, and not a dissertation written for classical scholars, this work concent

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(Sem)Erotics – Theorizing Lesbian: Writing by Elizabeth Meese

Elizabeth Meese | (Sem)Erotics – Theorizing Lesbian: Writing | What is at stake in the production of experimental texts by lesbian writers? What motivates these writers and characterizes their work? What is the na

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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 | A comprehensive treatment of Sappho’s poetry for the Greekless reader.

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Circulating Queerness by Natasha Hurley

Natasha Hurley | Circulating Queerness | Challenging the narrative that the gay and lesbian novel came into view in response to the emergence of homosexuality as a concept, Natasha Hurley pos