Author: Terry Castle

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

ISBN: 0231125119

Category: Lesbianism

Page: 1144

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From Renaissance love poems to twentieth-century novels, plays, and short stories, The Literature of Lesbianism brings together hundreds of literary works on the subject of female homosexuality with an astonishing and often unpredictable range of attitudes. Both male and female authors are represented as Castle explores the emergence and transformation of the "idea of lesbianism" over the past five centuries.