Author: Castel, Terry; Author: Castle, Terry
Paperback; Facsimiles, Portraits
322 pages
Published: September 1995
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN: 0231076533

In essays on literary images of lesbianism from Defoe and Diderot to Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes, on the homosexual reputation of Marie Antoinette, on the lesbian writings of Anne Lister, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Janet Flanner, and on Henry James's The Bostonians, Castle shows how a lesbian presence can be identified in the literature, history, and culture of the past three centuries.In a series of essays on literary images of lesbianism from Defoe and Diderot to Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes, the author shows how a lesbian presence can be identified in the literature, history and culture of the past three centuries.