The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian LiteratureJodie Medd Cambridge University Press, 2015 - 258 pagina's The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval period to the present. In addition to providing a helpful orientation to key literary-historical periods, critical concepts, theoretical debates and literary genres, this Companion considers the work of such well-known authors as Willa Cather, Adrienne Rich, Jeanette Winterson, and Rita Mae Brown. Written by a host of leading critics and covering subjects as diverse as lesbian desire in the long eighteenth century and same-sex love in a postcolonial context, this Companion delivers insight into the variety of traditions that have shaped the present landscape of lesbian literature. |
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An Introduction | 1 |
History and Temporality | 19 |
The Lesbian in Feminist Studies and Queer Studies | 32 |
Experience Difference and Power | 45 |
Queer Women in Nation | 60 |
Situating Female SameSex Love in the Middle Ages | 79 |
EarlyModern Sapphic Representations | 93 |
Lesbian Postmortem at the Fin de Siècle | 122 |
From Pulp | 154 |
Lesbian Autobiography and Memoir | 169 |
LesbianismPoetryPoetryLesbianism | 188 |
Into the TwentyFirst Century | 204 |
Comics Graphic Narratives and Lesbian Lives | 219 |
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Modern Times Modernist Writing Modern Sexualities | 139 |
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