The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to StonewallTerry Castle Columbia University Press, 2003 - 1110 Seiten Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. 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. This is not an anthology of "lesbian writers." Nor is it simply a one-sided compendium of "positive" or "negative" images of lesbian experience. Terry Castle 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 five 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 Castle 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. Beginning with an excerpt from Ariosto's comic epic poem, Orlando Furioso, the anthology progresses chronologically through the next five centuries, presenting selections from Shakespeare, John Donne, Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Alexander Pope, the Marquis de Sade, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Nella Larsen, Colette, and Graham Greene, among many others. It also includes some anonymous works--several published here for the first time--as well as numerous translations from the writers of antiquity, such as Sappho, Ovid, Martial, and Juvenal, whose rediscovery in the early Renaissance helped shape subsequent Western literary representations of female homosexuality. |
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... person : one suspects she was both an elegant and courageous woman . I first encountered her classic bibliogra- phy Sex Variant Women in Literature - issued privately at her own expense in 1956 , at a time when no reputable publisher ...
... person : one suspects she was both an elegant and courageous woman . I first encountered her classic bibliogra- phy Sex Variant Women in Literature - issued privately at her own expense in 1956 , at a time when no reputable publisher ...
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... person of whom one did well not to speak ( " a love - crazed female forni- cator who even sings about her own licentiousness , " according to the early Christian writer Tatian ) ; 18 more often than not , she was simply forgotten . All ...
... person of whom one did well not to speak ( " a love - crazed female forni- cator who even sings about her own licentiousness , " according to the early Christian writer Tatian ) ; 18 more often than not , she was simply forgotten . All ...
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... person elected to public office in the United States ( Massachusetts state assemblywoman Elaine Noble ) and the establishment of antidiscrimination laws in Boston , San Francisco , Houston , Detroit , Washington , D.C. , and other large ...
... person elected to public office in the United States ( Massachusetts state assemblywoman Elaine Noble ) and the establishment of antidiscrimination laws in Boston , San Francisco , Houston , Detroit , Washington , D.C. , and other large ...
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... person had a peculiar air of being proud of it all the time ( to be bald , like the ability to grow a moustache , was a masculine monopoly ) . A march had been stolen , with her masculine calvity . But a strawberry - pink pull - over ...
... person had a peculiar air of being proud of it all the time ( to be bald , like the ability to grow a moustache , was a masculine monopoly ) . A march had been stolen , with her masculine calvity . But a strawberry - pink pull - over ...
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... persons of the same sex a matter for rejoicing . Flanner was morally outraged , of course , that anyone would try to wrest away from Toklas in her dying years her last mementos of Stein - the great modern 32 INTRODUCTION.
... persons of the same sex a matter for rejoicing . Flanner was morally outraged , of course , that anyone would try to wrest away from Toklas in her dying years her last mementos of Stein - the great modern 32 INTRODUCTION.
Inhalt
V | 59 |
VI | 72 |
VII | 76 |
VIII | 79 |
IX | 82 |
X | 86 |
XI | 94 |
XII | 99 |
XCII | 515 |
XCIV | 521 |
XCV | 536 |
XCVII | 542 |
XCVIII | 547 |
C | 549 |
CII | 555 |
CIII | 556 |
XIII | 108 |
XIV | 115 |
XV | 117 |
XVI | 120 |
XVII | 125 |
XVIII | 129 |
XIX | 131 |
XX | 134 |
XXI | 136 |
XXII | 138 |
XXIII | 145 |
XXIV | 147 |
XXV | 155 |
XXVI | 158 |
XXVII | 160 |
XXVIII | 161 |
XXX | 162 |
XXXI | 163 |
XXXII | 165 |
XXXIII | 171 |
XXXIV | 175 |
XXXV | 178 |
XXXVI | 181 |
XXXVII | 184 |
XXXVIII | 187 |
XXXIX | 191 |
XL | 201 |
XLI | 206 |
XLII | 208 |
XLIII | 217 |
XLIV | 219 |
XLV | 229 |
XLVI | 230 |
XLVII | 231 |
XLVIII | 235 |
XLIX | 237 |
L | 243 |
LI | 248 |
LII | 250 |
LIII | 252 |
LIV | 267 |
LV | 272 |
LVI | 286 |
LVII | 292 |
LVIII | 294 |
LIX | 297 |
LX | 308 |
LXI | 313 |
LXII | 319 |
LXIII | 322 |
LXIV | 324 |
LXV | 330 |
LXVI | 334 |
LXVII | 339 |
LXVIII | 344 |
LXIX | 349 |
LXX | 351 |
LXXI | 360 |
LXXII | 380 |
LXXIII | 390 |
LXXIV | 400 |
LXXV | 402 |
LXXVI | 410 |
LXXVII | 424 |
LXXVIII | 426 |
LXXIX | 428 |
LXXX | 434 |
LXXXI | 453 |
LXXXIII | 471 |
LXXXIV | 476 |
LXXXVI | 482 |
LXXXVII | 484 |
LXXXIX | 493 |
XCI | 499 |
CIV | 557 |
CV | 558 |
CVI | 559 |
CVII | 560 |
CVIII | 564 |
CIX | 573 |
CXI | 581 |
CXII | 589 |
CXIII | 595 |
CXIV | 599 |
CXV | 602 |
CXVII | 608 |
CXVIII | 610 |
CXX | 613 |
CXXI | 620 |
CXXII | 622 |
CXXIV | 626 |
CXXV | 643 |
CXXVII | 648 |
CXXIX | 651 |
CXXXI | 669 |
CXXXII | 673 |
CXXXIV | 683 |
CXXXVI | 692 |
CXXXVII | 697 |
CXXXVIII | 705 |
CXXXIX | 716 |
CXL | 723 |
CXLII | 726 |
CXLIII | 732 |
CXLIV | 740 |
CXLVI | 751 |
CXLVIII | 756 |
CXLIX | 762 |
CL | 769 |
CLI | 779 |
CLII | 785 |
CLIV | 795 |
CLV | 806 |
CLVI | 816 |
CLVIII | 820 |
CLX | 826 |
CLXI | 833 |
CLXII | 844 |
CLXV | 849 |
CLXVII | 854 |
CLXIX | 860 |
CLXX | 865 |
CLXXII | 876 |
CLXXIII | 887 |
CLXXIV | 890 |
CLXXV | 894 |
CLXXVII | 900 |
CLXXVIII | 905 |
CLXXX | 917 |
CLXXXI | 924 |
CLXXXIII | 932 |
CLXXXIV | 940 |
CLXXXV | 948 |
CLXXXVII | 967 |
CLXXXIX | 974 |
CXC | 977 |
CXCII | 989 |
CXCIII | 999 |
CXCIV | 1008 |
CXCV | 1016 |
CXCVI | 1018 |
CXCVII | 1028 |
CXCIX | 1047 |
CCI | 1054 |
CCII | 1064 |
CCIV | 1075 |
CCV | 1083 |
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