Proust's Lesbianism / / Elisabeth Ladenson.

For decades, Elisabeth Ladenson says, critics have misread or ignored a crucial element in Marcel Proust's fiction—his representation of lesbians. Her challenging new book definitively establishes the centrality of lesbianism as sexual obsession and aesthetic model in Proust's vast novel A...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2007
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (160 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on the Text
  • Introduction: Pussy Galore and the Daughters of Bilitis
  • 1. Sexual/Textual Inversion
  • 2. Gomorrah and Sodom
  • 3. Reading between the Blinds
  • 4. The Evolution of Gomorrah
  • 5. Mothers and Daughters: The Origins of Gomorrah
  • Conclusion: Proust, Marcel, and Gender Theory
  • Index