This was a really insightful, albeit dated, history and literary criticism of lesbians in literature from antiquity to ~1950s. It was interesting to take a bird’s eye view on the many cultural pendulum swings that are covered here. Goes into women’s struggles to be published at various times, books being censored and / or banned, the lack of women in literary criticism, and lesbian characters as depicted by both women and men.
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ethereal girl in a material world. i like things bittersweet.
making emotional and noisy "ambient" / neoclassical music, writing poetry and diaries, and taking portraits of the ones i love in Tiohtià:ke.
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bognymph finished reading Sex variant women in literature by Jeannette H. Foster
bognymph finished reading A Woman Appeared to Me by Renée Vivien
19th-century / turn of the 20th century women in literature continue to dominate my collection. the melodrama, the tangents, the purple prose, the way the narrative is told primarily through emotional impressions alone. putting her next to Collette on my shelf as they were neighbours in real life and maybe she'll be comforted there.
19th-century / turn of the 20th century women in literature continue to dominate my collection. the melodrama, the tangents, the purple prose, the way the narrative is told primarily through emotional impressions alone. putting her next to Collette on my shelf as they were neighbours in real life and maybe she'll be comforted there.
bognymph started reading A Woman Appeared to Me by Renée Vivien
bognymph started reading Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
bognymph finished reading The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso
this made me love novels again (as opposed to non fiction and/or theory). gothic in the romantic sense - obsessed with rot and beauty and legacy and oblivion. identities and timelines folding over themselves for centuries. ruined and blurred. the dread of being confined to a Self, the dread of losing one's Self. an accretion of the deepest neuroses.
this made me love novels again (as opposed to non fiction and/or theory). gothic in the romantic sense - obsessed with rot and beauty and legacy and oblivion. identities and timelines folding over themselves for centuries. ruined and blurred. the dread of being confined to a Self, the dread of losing one's Self. an accretion of the deepest neuroses.





