Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
by Lillian Faderman
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages848 pages
ISBN
9780140172485
Published
1994
Description
In Lillian Faderman seeks no less than to radically redefine four centuries of lesbian literature, filling a need that has long been neglected: a literary anthology of lesbian writers over the past four centuries, with e...In Lillian Faderman seeks no less than to radically redefine four centuries of lesbian literature, filling a need that has long been neglected: a literary anthology of lesbian writers over the past four centuries, with each piece set in historical fiction and literary context. This landmark work of scholarship offers an enlightening review of the shifting concept of "Lesbian literature," Followed by examples of six different genres: romantic friendship, sexual inversion, exotic and evil lesbians, lesbian encoding, lesbian feminism, and post-lesbian feminism.
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