Transcendental Erotics, Same-Sex Desire, and Ethel's Love-Life

Beam, Dorri

doi:10.1353/esq.2011.0029

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2011

DOI: 10.1353/esq.2011.0029

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Transcendental Erotics, Same-Sex Desire, and Ethel's Love-Life

Dorri Beam¹

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Transcendental Erotics, Same-Sex Desire, and Ethel's Love-Life

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Electricity and Homosexuality: from 19th-century American Sexual Health Literature to D. H. Lawrence

Electricity and Homosexuality: from 19th-century American Sexual Health Literature to D. H. Lawrence

“The Ecstasy of the Martyr”: Lesbianism, Sacrifice, and Morbidness in The Bostonians

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