Lesbian Panic: Homoeroticism in Modern British Women's Fiction (Between Men~Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies) - Hardcover

Smith, Patricia Juliana

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9780231106207: Lesbian Panic: Homoeroticism in Modern British Women's Fiction (Between Men~Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies)

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ISBN 10: 0231106203 ISBN 13: 9780231106207

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1997

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For Smith, "lesbian panic" is often a fear of losing one's identity and value within the heterosexual paradigm. This book traces the history of "lesbian panic" through key works: The Voyage Out and Mrs. Dalloway; The Little Girls and Eva Trout; King of a Rainy Country; The Golden Notebook; and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

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PATRICIA JULIANA SMITH is lecturer in English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Should interest, provoke, and delight many readers--not simply for its illuminating and stylish readings of Woolf, Bowen, Spark, and many others, but for its compelling larger theme: that 'lesbian panic' must be considered a preeminent plot-shaping force in modernist and postmodern British fiction.

(Terry Castle, Stanford University)

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