Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century tothe Present
By Unknown Author.
Description
This text explores lesbian sensibility in 20th century fiction. From the verse of Sappho in 600 BC to Radclyffe Hall's "The Well of Loneliness", published in 1928, there is little women's writing that is recognised as "lesbian". It is short because while romantic friendship between women was an accepted social institution from the Renaissance to the 19th century, and sex between women appears to have been a staple of pornography since the incarnation of that genre, the possibility of seeing oneself as "a lesbian" had to wait until the emergence of Eng...
ISBN(s)
0140172483, 9780140172485
