![]() ![]() Yet what comes across everywhere is just how visible - as a literary theme - Sapphic love has always been in Western literature. Some are salacious or satiric, others sympathetic and confessional. Some excoriate female same-sex love some eulogize it. 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. This is not an anthology of "lesbian writers." Nor is it simply a one-sided compendium of "positive" or "negative" images of lesbian experience. ![]() 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. "Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. ![]()
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