This study, which reads Leduc's narratives from a feminist and psychoanalytic perspective,
has a double focus:-Part One scrutinizes the intricacies of her treatment of feminine bonding …

Applying the insights of lesbian and queer theory approach to a reading of Kate O'Brien's
third novel Mary Lavelle (1936) allows us to see not only a rich and intriguing text but by …

Set in the lesbian and gay circles of Paris in the 1920s, The Angel and the Perverts tells the
story of a hermaphrodite born to upper class parents in Normandy and ignorant of his/her …

GAYLE WHITTIER ing Lear explosively sexualizes its literary and folkloristic sources, and its
dominant image is, as Caroline Spurgeon observed over fty years ago, that of the body itself …

Given scholars' recent attention to hypermasculinity in the works of such figures as Jack
London, Ernest Hemingway, and Norman Mailer, it is tempting to believe that the …

N 1915 The Mothers, a play written by Edith Ellis, wife of Havelock Ellis, was produced at the
Little Theatre in Chicago. 1 A one-act, half hour piece of slight dramatic significance (had it …

They were an unlikely couple. Kurt Weill was a German cantor's son, cerebral, well-
educated. Lotte Lenya was two years older, an Austrian Catholic coachman's daughter, waif …

Eroticism, camouflage, encoding, and fragmentation are a few of the strategies for survival to
which lesbian writers have resorted in order to inscribe lesbianism in literary texts. 1 …

To notice that there is a frequent maternal presence at the center of certain narratives of
male sexuality will strike readers familiar with, or even those possessing a mere passing …

This essay argues that the resolution of Eliduc, in which Eliduc's wife Guildeluëc brings his
would-be lover Guilliadun back from the dead and takes the veil to allow them to marry …