From Renaissance love poems to twentieth-century novels, plays, and short stories, "The Literature of Lesbianism" brings together hundreds of literary works on the subject of female homosexuality with an astonishing and often unpredictable range...
The work of leading scholar Terry Castle features essays on phantasmagoria in 18th-century literature and culture. Taking as her emblem the fanciful "female thermometer", an imaginary instrument invented by 18th-century satirists to measure levels...