The Literature of Lesbianism; A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall

New York: Columbia University Press [0-231-12510-0] 2003. (Trade paperback) 1110pp. Near fine. Bibliography, indices. There is a remainder spot on the bottom edge and the bottom right corner of the front cover is lightly crease. "From Renaissance love poems to twentieth-century novels, plays, and short stories, the Literature of Lesbianism brings together hundreds of literary works on the subject of female homosexuality. This is not simply an anthology of lesbian writers; nor is it a compendium of positive or negative images of lesbian experience. Terry Castle explores the emergence and transfromation of the idea of lesbianism: its conceptual origins and how it has been transmitted, transformed, and collectively embellished over the past five centuries". (Fiction, Anthologies, Fiction, Homosexuality, Lesbian Literature, Poetry, Women).