num_pages: 307
description: In essays on literary images of lesbianism from Defoe and Diderot to Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes, on the homosexual reputation of Marie Antoinette, on the lesbian writings of Anne Lister, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Janet Flanner, and on Henry James's The Bostonians,  Castle shows how a lesbian presence can be identified in the literature, history, and culture of the past three centuries.
language: English
title: The Apparitional Lesbian
titlecomplete: The Apparitional Lesbian
genres: LGBT, Literary Criticism, Gay, Queer Studies, History, Theory, Queer, Nonfiction, Feminism, Lesbian
ratings_count: 99
series: Gender and Culture Series
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Studies
publisher: Columbia University Press