Cover; Proust's Lesbianism; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Text; Introduction: Pussy Galore and the Daughters of Bilitis; 1 Sexual/Textual Inversion; 2 Gomorrah and Sodom; 3 Reading between the Blinds; 4 The Evolution of Gomorrah; 5 Mothers and Daughters:The Origins of Gomorrah; Conclusion: Proust, Marcel, and Gender Theory; Index.
Summary
For Decades, Elisabeth Ladenson says, critics have misread or ignored a crucial element in Marcel Proust's fiction - his representation of lesbians. Her challenging new book definitively establishes the centrality of lesbianism as sexual obsession and aesthetic model in Proust's vast novel A la recherche du temps perdu.
