Damned Women: Lesbians in French Novel

by Jennifer R. Waelti-Walters

Book Overview

While homosexual men are legion in the history of French literature and criticism, until now no critic writing in French or English has given the same sort of attention to lesbians. Waelti-Walters covers two hundred years of fiction, beginning with the publication of Diderot's The Nun in 1796 and ending with present-day lesbian writers Jocelyne Fran?ois, Mireille Best, H?l?ne de Monferrand, and the authors connected to Genevi?ve Pastre's lesbian publishing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773521100
• ISBN13: 9780773521100
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"