The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature

This Companion examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval period to the present.

Jodie Medd (Edited by)

9781107663435, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 10 December 2015

292 pages, 3 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.43 kg

The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval period to the present. In addition to providing a helpful orientation to key literary-historical periods, critical concepts, theoretical debates and literary genres, this Companion considers the work of such well-known authors as Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Alison Bechdel and Sarah Waters. Written by a host of leading critics and covering subjects as diverse as lesbian desire in the long eighteenth century and same-sex love in a postcolonial context, this Companion delivers insight into the variety of traditions that have shaped the present landscape of lesbian literature.

Lesbian literature?: an introduction Jodie Medd
1. The queer time of lesbian literature: history and temporality Carla Freccero
2. Debating definitions: the lesbian in feminist studies and queer studies Annamarie Jagose
3. Experience, difference, and power Sandra K. Soto
4. Global desires, postcolonial critique: queer women in nation, migration, and diaspora Shamira A. Meghani
5. Situating female same-sex love in the middle ages Karma Lochrie
6. 'Bedfellowes in royaltie': early/modern Sapphic representations Susan S. Lanser
7. Writing lesbian desire in the long eighteenth century Caroline Gonda
8. Lesbian postmortem at the fin de siècle Kate Thomas
9. Modern times: modernist writing, modern sexualities Madelyn Detloff
10. Popular genres and 'lesbian' culture: from pulp to crime, and beyond Kaye Mitchell
11. Lesbian autobiography and memoir Monica Pearl
12. Lesbianism-poetry/poetry-lesbianism Amy Sara Carroll
13. Contemporary lesbian fiction: into the twenty-first century Emma Parker
14. Comics, graphic narratives, and lesbian lives Heike Bauer.

Subject Areas: Lesbian studies [JFSK1], Literary companions, book reviews & guides [DSRC], Literary studies: general [DSB]