 | Damned Women: Lesbians in French Novel Subjects: Lesbians in literature; French fiction -- History and criticism; Lesbians’ writings French -- History and criticism; French fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Damned Women charts the previously unexplored literary territory of the place of lesbians in the French novel. Beginning with the early depictions of lesbians as "decadent monsters" by nineteenth-century male authors such as Diderot, Balzac, and Gautier, Jennifer Waelti-Walters shows how later, little-known female writers struggled to free lesbian characters from imposed stereotypes. |
