Category: Literary History

Posted in Literary History Pulp

Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969 by Jaye Zimet

Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969 | Jaye Zimet | A vivid, sexy, and titillating journey into the steamy underworld of the dime novel.In the scandalous world of pulp fiction in the 1950s and into the

Posted in History Literary History

Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from ‘Beowulf’ to ‘Angels in America’ by Allen J. Frantzen

Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from ‘Beowulf’ to ‘Angels in America’ | Allen J. Frantzen | Allen J. Frantzen challenges the long accepted view that the early Middle Ages tolerated and even fostered same-sex relations and that intolerance of

Posted in History Literary History

Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from ‘Beowulf’ to ‘Angels in America’ by Allen J. Frantzen

Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from ‘Beowulf’ to ‘Angels in America’ | Allen J. Frantzen | Allen J. Frantzen challenges the long accepted view that the early Middle Ages tolerated and even fostered same-sex relations and that intolerance of

Posted in History Literary History

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers | Lillian Faderman | As Lillian Faderman writes, there are ‘no constants with regard to lesbianism,’ except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, she re

Posted in Literary Criticism Literary History

The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall by Terry Castle

The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall | Terry Castle | Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. From Renaissance love poems to twentieth-century no

Posted in Legal Literary History Non-Fiction

The Trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami

The Trials of Radclyffe Hall | Diana Souhami | Diana Souhami’s Lambda Award?winning biography is a fascinating look at one of the twentieth century’s most intriguing lesbian literary figures. Born

Posted in Legal Literary History Non-Fiction

The Trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami

The Trials of Radclyffe Hall | Diana Souhami | This is a biography of Radclyffe Hall, one of England nost eccentric contemporaywomen. She is also the quintissential gay and lesbian icon. The book s

Posted in Legal Literary History Non-Fiction

The Trials Of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami

The Trials Of Radclyffe Hall | Diana Souhami | Radclyffe Hall Was Born In 1880 In Bournemouth In A House Inappropriately Named ‘sunny Lawn’. Her Mother Drank Gin In An Attempt To Terminate The Preg

Posted in Literary Criticism Literary History

Scandal in the Ink: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century French Literature (Cassell Lesbian and Gay Studies) by Christopher Robinson

Scandal in the Ink: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century French Literature (Cassell Lesbian and Gay Studies) | Christopher Robinson | This highly original study of homosexuality as a theme in [french [literature this century traces the development of self-image among writers and look

Posted in Chicana/Latina/Latinx Interest Literary Collections Literary History

Confessions Of The Letter Closet by Patrick Paul Garlinger

Confessions Of The Letter Closet | Patrick Paul Garlinger | By the beginning of the twentieth century, epistolary novels in Spain increasingly grappled with homoerotic and homosexual desire, treating it as a se