The apparitional lesbian : female homosexuality and modern culture
Terry Castle (Author)
In a series of wide-ranging 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. Castle also includes two personal essays: "First Ed," a lyrical tribute to a long-forgotten lesbian "ghost," and "In Praise of Brigitte Fassbaender," on coming out as a lesbian opera fan
Print Book, English, 1993
Columbia University Press, New York, 1993