About this deal
Of specific Lesbian interest
A sweeping and epic queer love story, ranging from France in 1610 to Amsterdam and the Canary Islands in the 1620s, The Ghost Ship is a thrilling novel of adventure and buccaneering, love and revenge, stolen fortunes and hidden secrets on the High Seas. But now the Ghost Ship is under attack - its hull splintered, its sails tattered and burnt, and the crew at risk of capture. It is known only as the Ghost Ship. ' - Santa Montefiore, bestselling author of An Italian Girl in Brooklyn'The Ghost Ship is utterly absorbing. Medd's analysis draws on legal proceedings and parliamentary debates as well as crises within modern literary production - patronage relations, literary obscenity and cultural authority - to reveal how lesbian suggestion forced modern political, cultural and literary institutions to negotiate their own identities, ideals and limits.
Published on 6 July 2023 by PAN MACMILLAN (Mantle) in the United Kingdom as part of 'The Joubert Family Chronicles' series.
- Offers compelling stories of scandalous trials and their relationship to movements in modernist art and literature
- Reconsiders established terms in 'lesbian history'/sexual history
- Draws surprising connections between lesbian allegations and political and artistic concerns