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The Cambridge Companion To American Gay And Lesbian Literature by Scott Herring

Scott Herring | The Cambridge Companion To American Gay And Lesbian Literature | ‘This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It surv

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Lesbianism In Swedish Literature by Jenny Bjo?rklund

Jenny Bjo?rklund | Lesbianism In Swedish Literature | Here, Jenny Björklund reveals that Swedish literary discourses on lesbianism provocatively contrast with a widely accepted view that attitudes toward

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Lesbian Modernism by Elizabeth English

Elizabeth English | Lesbian Modernism | The first book-length study to explore the importance of genre for the body of literature we call lesbian modernism

Popular fiction is seen a

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The Lesbian Lyre by Jeffrey M. Duban

Jeffrey M. Duban | The Lesbian Lyre | Hailed by Plato as the ‘Tenth Muse’ of ancient Greek poetry, Sappho is inarguably antiquity’s greatest lyric poet. Born over 2,600 years ago on the Gr

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The Gay Detective Novel by Judith A. Markowitz

Judith A. Markowitz | The Gay Detective Novel | Gertrude Stein called it ‘the only really modern novel form that has come into existence,’ yet the mystery genre was a century old before it featured

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The Lesbian Fantastic by Phyllis M. Betz

Phyllis M. Betz | The Lesbian Fantastic | ‘This work examines how lesbian authors have used the structures and conventions of science fiction to embody characters, relationships and other them

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The Queer Sixties by Patricia Juliana Smith

Patricia Juliana Smith | The Queer Sixties | As the 1960s recede further into our collective memory, curiosity and nostalgia for this groovy, flower-powered decade persists. Many books have chart

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The Cambridge History Of Gay And Lesbian Literature by E. L. McCallum; Mikko Tuhkanen

E. L. McCallum; Mikko Tuhkanen | The Cambridge History Of Gay And Lesbian Literature | ‘The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature presents a global history of the field and is an unprecedented summation of critical knowledge on

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Gay Signatures by Owen Heathcote; Alex Hughes; James S. Williams

Owen Heathcote; Alex Hughes; James S. Williams | Gay Signatures | This interdisciplinary book responds to the explosion of gay and lesbian creativity on modern-day France. Rather than attempting to formalize a specif

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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