The Apparitional Lesbian
Download or Read eBook The Apparitional Lesbian PDF written by Terry Castle and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Terry Castle |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1993 |
ISBN-10 | : 0231076533 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780231076531 |
Rating | : 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Apparitional Lesbian by : Terry Castle
Book excerpt: In essays on literary images of lesbianism from Defoe and Diderot to Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes, on the homosexual reputation of Marie Antoinette, on the lesbian writings of Anne Lister, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Janet Flanner, and on Henry James's The Bostonians, Castle shows how a lesbian presence can be identified in the literature, history, and culture of the past three centuries