Proust's lesbianism
By: Elisabeth Ladenson.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.; Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 -- Characters -- Lesbians.; Lesbians in literature.; Homosexuality in literature.; Homosexuality and literature -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.