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What lesbians do in books

Title: What lesbians do in books / Elaine Hobby and Chris White, editors.
Publication: London : Women's Press, 1991.

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Description

283 pages; 20 cm

Summary

"What Lesbians do in Books is the first British anthology of critical writing about lesbians as writers, readers and as characters in literature"--Back cover.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-273) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Elaine Hobby, Chris White. -- (1) LESBIAN BOOKS. The lesbian feminist thriller and detective novel / Paulina Palmer -- Primary intensities : lesbian poetry and the reading of difference / Liz Yorke -- Divine visitations : Sapphos poetry of love / Gillian Spraggs -- "She was not really man at all" :the lesbian practice and politics of Edith Ellis -- Towards a new cartography : Radclyffe Hall, Virginia Woolf and the working of common land / Lyndie Brimstone. -- (2) LESBIANS READING. Katherine Mansfield's "Pear Tree" / Gillian Hanscombe -- "The Chinese Garden" : a cautionary tale / Gabriele Griffin -- Anamika / Giti Thadani. -- (3) LESBIANS WRITING. Katherine Philips: Seventeenth-century lesbian poet / Elaine Hobby -- Reading Genesis / Patricia Duncker -- From my eyes : Zamis Publishing Poetry 1984-1988 / Dorothea Smartt -- The process of writing "Three Ply Yarn / Caeia March.

ISBN

070434288X
9780704342880
0749398035
9780749398033

LCCN

92215708
31539676

OCLC

ocm28549769
28549769
SCSB-1966459

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Princeton University Library