Title: Proust's Lesbianism
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Lesbians, Characters, Lesbians in literature, History, Homosexuality in literature, Homosexuality and literature, Proust, marcel, 1871-1922
Places: France
People: Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PQ2631.R63 A82765 1999