Sappho and the Virgin Mary

By Ruth Vanita

Book Overview

In this book, Vanita engages these two central icons of Western cultural mythology to rethink the concept of literary ancestry. Uncovering layers of love between women in works by male and female authors from the Romantic to the postcolonial, she demonstrates that lesbian connections have long animated the Western literary imagination.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231105517
• ISBN13: 9780231105514
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.3"