a historical anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Castle, Terry > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B 03 2003/WER
- Thesaurus
- lesbianisme, lesbische vrouwen, schrijvers, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bloemlezing, biografie
- Description
- Beginning with an excerpt from Ariosto's comic epic poem, Orlando Furioso, the anthology progresses chronologically through the next five centuries, presenting selections from Shakespeare, John Donne, Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Alexander Pope, The Marquis de Sade, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Nella Larsen, Colette, and Graham Greene, among others. It also includes some anonymous works, as well as numerous translations from the writers of antiquity, such as Sappho, Ovid, Martial, and Juvenal, whose rediscovery in the early Renaissance helped shape subsequent Western literary representations of female homosexuality.