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Terry Castle (ed.): The Literature of Lesbianism

Terry Castle (ed.): The Literature of Lesbianism

A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall. USA 2006, 1110 pp., brochure, € 69.99
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Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. From Renaissance love poems to 20th-century novels, plays, and short stories, this book brings together hundreds of literary works on the subject of female homosexuality. This is not an anthology of »lesbian writers«. Nor is it simply a one-sided compendium of »positive« or »negative« images of lesbian experience. The editor explores the emergence and transformation of the »idea of lesbianism«: its conceptual origins and how it has been transmitted, transformed, and collectively embellished over the past centuries. Both male and female authors are represented here and they display an astonishing and often unpredictable range of attitudes. Some excoriate female same-sex love, some eulogize it, some are salacious or satiric, others sympathetic and confessional. Yet what comes across everywhere is just how visible - as a literary theme - Sapphic love has always been in Western literature. As the author demonstrates, it is hardly the taboo or forbidden topic we sometimes assume it to be, but has in fact been a central preoccupation for many of our greatest writers, past and present.
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