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Proust's Lesbianism

✍ Scribed by Elisabeth Ladenson

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2018
Tongue
English
Leaves
155
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

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...

✦ Table of Contents

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

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