Sapphic fathers : discourses of same-sex desire from nineteenth-century France / Gretchen Schultz.

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015]

xix, 295 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-284) and index.

Introduction: Backstories -- The poetics of lesbian identification -- Tribades for sale: poplular fiction and backroom books -- Dystopian Sapphism: anti-feminism, class warfare, and the elite novel at the Fin de Siècle -- Scientia Sapphica -- Intertexts and afterlives: from the French canon to U.S. lesbian pulps.