The author argues that for decades, critics have misread or ignored a crucial element in Marcel Proust's fiction - his representation of lesbians. Her text establishes the centrality of lesbianism as sexual obsession and aesthetic model in his novel, A la recherche du temps perdu.
The author argues that for decades, critics have misread or ignored a crucial element in Marcel Proust's fiction - his representation of lesbians. Her...
In Dirt for Art's Sake, Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors. What, she asks, do these often-colorful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and about a changing cultural climate that first treated them as filth and later celebrated them as masterpieces?
Ladenson's narrative starts with Madame Bovary (Flaubert was tried in France in 1857) and finishes with Fanny Hill (written in the eighteenth century, put on trial in the United States in 1966); she considers, along the way, Les Fleurs du...
In Dirt for Art's Sake, Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors. What,...
For decades, Elisabeth Ladenson says, critics have misread or ignored a crucial element in Marcel Proust's fiction his representation of lesbians. Her challenging new book definitively establishes the centrality of lesbianism as sexual obsession and aesthetic model in Proust's vast novel A la recherche du temps perdu. Traditional readings of the Recherche have dismissed Proust's "Gomorrah" his term for women who love other women as a veiled portrayal of the novelist's own homosexuality. More recently, "queer-positive" rereadings have viewed the novel's treatment of female sexuality as...
For decades, Elisabeth Ladenson says, critics have misread or ignored a crucial element in Marcel Proust's fiction his representation of lesbians. Her...
In Dirt for Art's Sake, Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors. What, she asks, do these often-colorful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and about a changing cultural climate that first treated them as filth and later celebrated them as masterpieces?
Ladenson's narrative starts with Madame Bovary (Flaubert was tried in France in 1857) and finishes with Fanny Hill (written in the eighteenth century, put on trial in the United States in 1966); she...
In Dirt for Art's Sake, Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their autho...
Sheds light on the male attraction to lesbianism. This book features articles that tackle the legacy of salacious imagery created by men, while others address the connections between male constructions of female homo eroticism and lesbian self-representation.
Sheds light on the male attraction to lesbianism. This book features articles that tackle the legacy of salacious imagery created by men, while others...
