"Allen s book will... provide the categories that will deepen
our understanding of lesbian relationships and of lesbian fiction."
Lesbian Review of Books
"Barnes scholars will... want to pick up Carolyn Allen s new
book, for it not only offers perceptive readings of Nightwood and
the "Little Girl" stories..., but traces the example of Barnes s
exploration of lesbian power and loss in the fiction of Jeanette
Winterson, Rebecca Brown, and the underrated Bertha Harris." Review
of Contemporary Fiction
..". fascinating... a] fine volume... " Choice
"Following Djuna is a fascinating analysis of the textual
erotics and lyrical seductions of the work of Djuna Barnes and the
writers she influences. This scintillating genealogy of lesbian
intertextuality... expands the field of lesbian and feminist
literary inquiry and concepts of lesbian literary production."
Judith Roof
"As lesbian literary history, here is an instant classic." Jane
Marcus
"This is an important and necessary book; even further, speaking
as an admirer of the writers and literary works it discusses and as
a personal expert on lost love, I find Following Djuna irrestible."
Karen Helfrich, Lambda Book Report
Carolyn Allen argues for the importance of women s fiction in
understanding women s erotics emotional and sexual exchanges
between women."
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