Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-sex Love and the English Literary Imagination by Ruth Vanita

Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-sex Love and the English Literary Imagination

Ruth Vanita

304 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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This work looks at the legacy of love between women in the English canon from romantic to postcolonial literature. It examines layers of homoeroticism in works by male and female authors, and demonstrates the place of lesbian desire in the Western...

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