Author: Vanita, Ruth
Title: Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination
Description: New York, Columbia University Press, (1996). orig.boards. 23x15cm, viii, 289 pp. Minor rubbing. A small mark to cover. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Imagined Ancestries; The Marian Model; The Sapphic Sublime & Romantic Lyricism; Ecstacy in Victorianl Aestheticism; Anarchist Feminism & the Homoerotic: Wilde, Carpenter, Shelley; The Search for a " Likeness": Skakespeare to Michael Field; Sapphic Virgins: Mythmaking Around Love Between Women in Meredith, Forster, Hope Mirrlees; Biography as Homoerotic Fiction: Freud, Pater and Woolf; The Wilde-ness of Woolf: Evading & Embracing Death in 'Orlando' and 'The Waves'; Dogs, Phoenixes and Other Beasts: Nonhuman Creatures in Homoerotic Texts.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, English Literature, Female, Homosexuality, Social History, Lesbians, Lesbian, Lesbianism,