Insane Passions
Lesbianism and Psychosis in Literature and Film
Christine Coffman

Wesleyan University Press



Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Marking the Limits of the Social
• Writing the Papin Affair
• Surrealism’s Lesbian Doubles
• “What insane passion”: Djuna Barnes’s
Nightwood
• “Prophetess Faced Prophetess”: Madness and H.D.’s Prose
• The Late Twentieth Century: Filming the Psychotic Queer Woman
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index




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