Following Djuana

<p>Allen's book will . . . provide the categories that will deepen our understanding of lesbian relationships and of lesbian fiction. --Lesbian Review of Books<br /><br />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<br /><br /> . . . fascinating . . . [a] fine volume . . . --Choice<br /><br /><i>Following Djuna</i> 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<br /><br />As lesbian literary history here is an instant classic. --Jane Marcus<br /><br />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 <i>Following Djuna</i> irrestible. --Karen Helfrich Lambda Book Report<br /><br />Carolyn Allen argues for the importance of women's fiction in understanding women's erotics--emotional and sexual exchanges between women.</p>