Episode Details

Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.

In this episode we talk about:

• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • The Lesbian Premodern
• Announcing this month’s author guest, Kathleen Knowles
• New and forthcoming fiction
  • The new and forthcoming books segment starts next month. I swear.
• Ask Sappho: Nina, from The Lesbian Review facebook group, asks “Can anyone recommend older literature with subtle (or not so subtle) sapphic undertones? I just read Cousin Bette and really enjoyed the little lesbian romance going on between Valerie and Bette. Apparently the Victorian era had lots of these covert lesbian romance narratives, and I need more!”
• Literary Studies:
  • Castle, Terry (ed). 2003. The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall.Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 0-231-12510-0
  • Donoghue, Emma. 2010. Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. ISBN 978-0-307-27094-8
  • Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-688-00396-6
  • Faderman, Lillian (ed). 1994. Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian and Bisexual Literature from the 17th Century to the Present. Viking, xx. ISBN 978-0-670-84638-4
  • Foster, Jeannette. 1985. Sex Variant Women in Literature. The Naiad Press. ISBN 0-930044-65-7 Third edition of the original 1956 publication.
• Decadent Novels:
  • de Balzac, Honoré. 1846. Cousin Bette. gutenberg.org, Librivox audiobook
  • de Balzac, Honoré. 1833. The Girl with the Golden Eyes. gutenberg.org, Librivox audiobook
  • Gautier, Théophile. 1835. Mademoiselle de Maupin. gutenberg.org
  • LeFanu, Sheridan. 1872. Carmilla. gutenberg.org, Librivox audiobook
  • Zola, Emile. 1880. Nana. gutenberg.org
• Novels of Romantic Friendship:
  • Converse, Florence. 1897. Diana Victrix. gutenberg.org
  • James, Henry. 1886. The Bostonians. gutenberg.org vol.1, gutenberg.org vol.2, Librivox audiobook
  • Linton, Eliza Lynn. 1880. The Rebel of the Family. gutenberg.orgbook
  • Scott, Sarah. 1762. A Description of Millennium Hall. gutenberg.orgbook