Lesbian aesthetics, aestheticizing lesbianism

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 281-290

  Tongson, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 61149676319     PISSN: 08919356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ncl.2005.60.3.281     Document Type: Editorial

References (13)

1. See Chloe plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, ed. Lillian Faderman (New York: Viking Penguin, 1994);
2. and The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall, ed. Terry Castle (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2003).
3. Castle, "Introduction," in The Literature of Lesbianism, p. 6.
4. For a provocative account of the aestheticization of lesbianism in male-authored literary writings, see Elisabeth Ladenson, Proust's Lesbianism (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1999).
5. See also the special issue of GLQ on "Men and Lesbianism," edited by Ladenson: GLQ 7, no. 3 (2001), 371-486.
6. See Yopie Prins, Victorian Sappho (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1999).
7. See Prins, Victorian Sappho, pp. 74-111.
8. See Annamarie Jagose, Inconsequence: Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 2002), p. x.
9. Traub, The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002), p. 15.
10. See Amy Villarejo, Lesbian Rule: Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire (Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2003);
11. see also Linda Williams, Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible" (Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1989).
12. See Martha Vicinus, Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2004), p. xxi, where Vicinus, in response to Leila Rupp, takes up the discussion of using "lesbian" as an adjective rather than noun.
13. See also Leila J. Rupp, "Toward a Global History of Same-Sex Sexuality," Journal of the History of Sexuality, 10 (2001), 287-88.