Category: Literary History

Jill Robbins | Crossing Through Chueca | In the past two decades the city of Madrid has been marked by pride, feminism, and globalization–but also by the vestiges of the machismo nurtured du

Eileen Barrett; Patricia Cramer | Virginia Woolf | Eileen Barrett and Patricia Cramer have put together an excellent collection of original articles which demonstrates the range of lesbian literary sch

Valerie Traub | The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England | Valerie Traub analyzes the representation of female-female love, desire, and eroticism in a range of early modern discourses, including poetry, drama,

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

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

Emma Donoghue | Inseparable | From the much-admired literary critic, novelist, and scholar–a book that illuminates the long-standing but little-known tradition of love between wom

Terry Castle | Noël Coward & Radclyffe Hall | At first glance, it seems difficult to imagine two more different literary personalities than Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall. Coward’s writing is play

Jennifer Waelti-Walters | Damned Women | A literary study of lesbians in french novels, 1796-1996

Damned Women charts the previously unexplored literary territory of the place of le

Norman W. Jones | Gay and Lesbian Historical Fiction | The first extensive study of gay and lesbian historical fiction, this book demonstrates how the highly popular genre helps us understand gay and lesbi

Susan Stryker | Queer Pulp | From homicidal homos to locked-up lesbians, and almost every sexually dangerous combination in between, Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden