Insane Passions
Lesbianism and Psychosis in Literature and Film
Christine Coffman
Wesleyan University Press distributed by University Press of New England
Table of 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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