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Insane Passions: Lesbianism and Psychosis in Literature and Film »
Authors: Christine Coffman
ISBN-13: 9780819568199, ISBN-10: 0819568198
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Date Published: December 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Christine Coffman
CHRISTINE E. COFFMAN is an assistant professor in the department of English at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Book Synopsis
How "the insane lesbian" became a popular stereotype.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction: Marking the Limits of the Social Writing the Papin Affair Surrealism's Lesbian Doubles
"What insane passion": Djuna Barnes's Nightwood
"Prophetess Faced Prophetess": Madness and H.D.'s Prose The Late Twentieth Century: Filming the Psychotic Queer Woman Notes Works Cited Index
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